Absurd Quotes
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First, you know, 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. (Quote by - James,William)
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. (Quote by - Jennifer Beals)
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. (Quote by - Goethe,JohannWolfgang von)
I think it's absurd to make any such suggestion that our men and women in uniform deliberately targeted innocent civilians. That's just absurd. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. (Quote by - Catherine Crowe)
It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd. (Quote by - Richard Hatch)
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Nihil tam absurde dici potest quo non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum. There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. (Quote by - MarcusTullius Cicero)
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. (Quote by - Richard Courant)
For the eye to have been formed by natural selection, seems absurd in the highest degree. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Were seeing in the fiction something that seems absurd, but it's not as absurd as the form in which it's actually being applied on a daily and weekly basis. (Quote by - William Sanchez)
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)
There is always something rather absurd about the past. (Quote by - Beerbohm)
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason. (Quote by - Henry Mencken)
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. (Quote by - Elizabeth Goudge)
The logic of the heart is absurd. (Quote by - Julie de Lespinasse)
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind. (Quote by - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
It's been terrible. ... The charges were absurd then, they remain absurd now. (Quote by - Antoaneta Uzunova)
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve¤ rite¤ . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. (Quote by - Camus, Albert)
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. (Quote by - Anatole France)
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted. (Quote by - David Lynch)
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenöand absurd. (Quote by - Fowles,John Robert)
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. (Quote by - Franklin Pierce)
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. (Quote by - David Lynch)
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. (Quote by - Sir Oswald Mosley)
L'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son de¤ s ir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde na|"t de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence de¤ raisonnable du monde. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. (Quote by - Camus, Albert)
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
Ladies playing cricket - absurd. Just like a man trying to knit. (Quote by - Len Hutton)
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation. (Quote by - Vicesimus Knox)
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. (Quote by - Georges Duhamel)
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. (Quote by - Frank McCourt)
Ist es an und fu« r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu« r einUbel zu « halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non(Quote by - Schopenhauer, Arthur)
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously. (Quote by - Howard Kramer)
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. (Quote by - Thomas Nagel)
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. (Quote by - Charles V)
We felt it was a real clear case before the court that showed the absurdity of the law. Our ads were very clear. They said nothing about an election. They weren't critical of Kohl or Feingold. Of course, it's absurd you can mention Kohl but not Feingold. (Quote by - Barbara Lyons)
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. (Quote by - John Henry Cardinal Newman)
The absurd man is he who never changes. (Quote by - Auguste Barthelemy)
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. (Quote by - Samuel Pepys)
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass. (Quote by - Peter Roebuck)
