Absurd famous quotes
04-01-2025
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the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
-- Albert Camus -
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
-- Albert Camus -
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
-- Albert Camus -
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
-- Alice Munro -
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
-- Anthony Hope -
Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
-- Barbara Pym -
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
-- Benjamin Graham -
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
-- Benjamin Zander -
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.
-- Brandon Lee -
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
-- Catherine Breillat -
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
-- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden -
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
-- Claire Forlani -
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.
-- Claudia Black -
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
-- Daniil Kharms -
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
-- Danny DeVito -
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
-- Dave Eggers -
I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.
-- Drew Fuller -
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
-- Edmund White -
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
-- Erica Jong -
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
-- Frederick Herzberg -
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
-- Frida Kahlo -
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
-- George Berkeley -
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
-- George MacDonald -
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
-- George Orwell -
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
-- George Santayana -
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
-- H. L. Mencken -
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.
-- Hamid-Reza Assefi -
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
-- Harold Prince -
If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
-- Harry Mulisch -
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.
-- Henry Beston -
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
-- Hugh Prather -
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...
-- Irene Nemirovsky -
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
-- J. K. Rowling -
The logic of the heart is absurd
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse -
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
-- Jeff Tweedy -
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
-- Jonathan Ames -
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
-- Joseph Addison -
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.
-- Joshua Ferris -
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.
-- Judith McNaught -
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
-- Julio Cortazar -
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical,
-- Junichiro Koizumi -
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
-- Kathleen Norris -
I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
-- Kevin McCloud -
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
-- Mark Slouka -
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.
-- Mary Collyer -
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.
-- Mieczyslaw Jastrun -
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
-- Miroslav Volf -
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.
-- Mother Teresa -
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.
-- Murray Rothbard -
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
-- Neel Burton -
The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.
-- Nick Clegg -
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.
-- Oliver Heaviside -
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
-- P. T. Barnum -
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
-- Patrick Stewart -
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.
-- Peter Abelard -
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
-- Peter Mullan -
I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
-- Peter Mullan -
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
-- Rachel Maddow -
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
-- Ray Stevenson -
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
-- Rex Stout -
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
-- Robert Browning -
Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.
-- Robert Ludlum -
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.
-- Sadegh Hedayat -
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)
-- Sheldon B. Kopp -
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
-- Slobodan Milosević -
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
-- Stanley Crouch -
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
-- Steve Reich -
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
-- Thomas Hobbes -
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
-- Thomas Mann -
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
-- Thomas Nagel -
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
-- Thomas Woods -
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
-- Victor Hugo -
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
-- Virginia Woolf -
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
-- Wendell Berry -
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
-- Wilhelm Reich -
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
-- William James -
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
-- William James -
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
-- Yi-Fu Tuan -
It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.
-- Catherine Mayer
