Absurdity Quotes
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Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior? (Quote by - James H. Donovan )
He's got to just stay to himself and swallow it ... because everybody wanna try the football player. (Quote by - Former NFL running back and Leavenworth inmate Bam Morris)
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
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 - Lisa Parker)
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 )
The absurdities of life keep me chuckling along…. (Quote by - Carlos Felfoldi)
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. (Quote by - Jackie Mason)
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
They're ridiculous. They're absurd. They're really mean-spirited without any findings. (Quote by - James Cobb)
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. (Quote by - William Osler)
I truly believe that the reason I made the awful mistake and a few thereafter was because I didn't love myself enough to tell the truth. (Quote by - Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones)
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. (Quote by - Repplier, Agnes)
You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing. It's not bombing, it's air support. (Quote by - Air Force Colonel David Opfer)
I'm not against the blacks, and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that. (Quote by - Evan Mecham)
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. (Quote by - Ned Johnson)
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd. . . . Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste? . . . Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding? (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. (Quote by - André Breton)
I never even knew that was in the rule book. (Quote by - Donovan McNabb)
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background. (Quote by - Hamid-Reza Asefi)
Tom Delay did bugs exterminate before he did kid soldiers terminate. Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthright about how many died in the last fortnight. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only. (Quote by -Thomas Hobbes)
It's patently absurd. You just can't go there. (Quote by - Rod Nelson)
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. (Quote by - Johnston)
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. (Quote by - Aristotle)
It might seem crazy, but I'm looking at this team five or 10 years down the road, and it is filled with good young players from the draft. I'm percolating coffee here. I'm not making instant. (Quote by - Then-Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli)
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)
This process is getting a little more absurd the further we move,. (Quote by - Charles Schumer)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The boy wanted to be here [in Miami], but he's obliged to live in an absurd system, .. Fidel doesn't let us communicate with him. Neither Elian nor his father agrees with the regime. He went back to Cuba only because the Clinton administration pressured him to. (Quote by - Elian Gonzalez)
On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary. (Quote by - George Wolfe)
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
It's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. (Quote by - Suspended Dallas Stars agitator Sean Avery)
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. (Quote by - Bonaparte)
When people suddenly become prosperous, they also become preposterous. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year. (Quote by - Matt Millen)
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spider had turned into a demon and was then struck by lightning. One could also come in contact with the strangest of views; for example, that foreign troops could be prevented from landing by building a Great Wall along the sea coast. (Quote by - Lao She)
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. (Quote by - Cicero)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Quote by - Voltaire)
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)
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Capital punishment is our societies recognition of the sanctity of human life. (Quote by - Orrin Hatch)
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. (Quote by - William Jame)
He's a great guy, absurdly talented, and he seemed ready to sing. It's these parts he can come up with, these ways of double tracking, these really unusual harmonies - I could listen to Antony all day. (Quote by - Lou Reed)
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. (Quote by - Claudia Black)
I didn't even realize they called a technical on me until I was told later. That's absurd, that's all I can say. But I'm not going to say that the officials cost us the game. (Quote by - Tom Penders)
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 women and absurd. (Quote by - Fowles)
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
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-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness. (Quote by - Schopenhauer)
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. (Quote by - Chamfort)
Don't be humble. You're not that great. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
In many, many ways, they had a number of opportunities before the 11th. It's absurd to suggest that there weren't many signals that there could be an attack by an airplane on buildings in this country. (Quote by - Carl Levin)
I think it's absurd that insurance companies would avoid paying these claims,. (Quote by - Charlie Melancon)
Then why are you covering the [Washington] Nationals? (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
It remains more than a bit absurd to me that this scene would garner an R if shot exactly the same but from just torso up, but becomes an NC-17 because the master shot reveals full bodies. (Quote by - Robert Lantos)
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. (Quote by - Kedar Joshi)
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine. (Quote by - Franklin)
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. (Quote by - Havel)
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It's not fair that some men should be happier than others. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical,. (Quote by - Junichiro Koizumi)
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. (Quote by - Brooke Shields)
Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors? (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist (Quote by - John Sedgwick)
Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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)
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)
I did what any normal person would do at that age. You call home. You call home to mother and father and say, "I'd like to get into the National Guard." (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. (Quote by - Slobodan Milosevic)
I am a man possessed. Will do everything we can. (Quote by - Oklahoma City businessman/Seattle Sonics co-owner Clay Bennett)
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
We all make mistakes. He needs a chance to make mistakes. (Quote by - Devin Ebanks)
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. (Quote by - Georges Duhamel)
I think it's absurd that they think the authors should have to come to them to opt out of the database,. (Quote by - Peter Salus)
Facts are stupid things. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
The suggestion that the mayor is limited to doing only what he proposed during his re-election campaign is absurd. (Quote by - Edward Skyler)
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. (Quote by - Cicero)
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. (Quote by - CurtisJackson)
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)
The Diet concluded that postal privatization is unnecessary. But that's absurd,. (Quote by - Junichiro Koizumi)
Monotheism is a gift from the gods. (Quote by - Fire Cat)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by resorting to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Ward, come upstairs and talk to The Beaver. (Quote by - June Cleaver)
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)
There is always something rather absurd about the past. (Quote by - Beerbohm)
The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Look at all the people we had on IR. That's an absurd amount. That's got to be some kind of NFL record. (Quote by - Will Whitticker)
They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears. (Quote by - Paola Antonelli)
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. (Quote by - Clark M. Clifford)
It is completely absurd. We are tired of denying these assertions. (Quote by - Boris Labusov)
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. (Quote by - Willem de Kooning)
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. (Quote by - Cardinal Newman)
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark. (Quote by - Jacques Rigaut)
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it. (Quote by - Wayne Smith)
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death. (Quote by - New York Knicks point guard (technically speaking) Stephon Marbury)
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one"s own opinion. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Mr. Clemens, I am not an expert in any of these issues ... but you appear to be the same size in all of these photos. (Quote by - Rep. Virginia Foxx)
That's just one of the absurdities of the policy. We're not any safer, just a lot less free. (Quote by - Howard Simon)
The only way we can do what we do is to be absurdly optimistic,. (Quote by - Christine Vachon)
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. (Quote by - Terry Gilliam)
I think they do it to look good in the lobby in their three-piece suit. (Quote by - Roger Clemens)
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
It is so absurd what this alleged victim is saying. He's saying that he fought two guys with a stun gun and a knife, and he jumps out of the car. (Quote by - Dan Bennett)
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
I should have a third ear coming out of my forehead. (Quote by - Roger Clemens)
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
It's been terrible. .. The charges were absurd then, they remain absurd now. (Quote by - Antoaneta Uzunova)
He's very emotional about these charges, .. He thinks they are absurd. (Quote by - Mo Shaoping)
There is an absurdity in it, particularly in the relationship between the siblings. (Quote by - John Madden)
Only the exceptionally equanimous person can allow himself to be absurd. (Quote by - Allan Goldfein)
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. (Quote by - Camus)
The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'. (Quote by - Ye Xiaowen)
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people. (Quote by - Daryl Gates)
It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,. (Quote by - Robert Lantos)
There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it. (Quote by - Bernie Katz)
Is it hard to swallow? Yeah, it's a big turkey going down my throat, a couple bones sticking in there. (Quote by - Then-Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli)
I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd,. (Quote by - Richard Hatch)
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Quote by - John Calvin)
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)
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. . . . Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
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)
Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field. (Quote by - Al Davis)
It's an absurd version of the modus operandi. (Quote by - Gad Shimron)
That's absurd. The relief we are seeking is to halt state funding to a private school that practices discrimination. (Quote by - Christina Gilgor)
Although the story is absurd and at times somewhat humorous, it produces a hateful image of the institution and it is well known that hateful images like this produce feelings of hatred in those who lack a critical sense. (Quote by - Marc Carroggio)
I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human. (Quote by - Peter Sarsgaard)
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.. (Quote by - Christopher Darlington Morley)
No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. (Quote by - Bernard Levin)
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)
He has the heart of a poet trapped inside an insanely gorgeous body. (Quote by - Madonna)
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. (Quote by - Catherynne M. Valente)
Sometimes the whole thing cracks me up, it's so absurd,. (Quote by - Rick Owens)
To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd. (Quote by - Terri Bartlett)
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. (Quote by - Václav Havel)
It is an absurdity on a moral point of view. (Quote by - Bruno Paillard)
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. (Quote by - Lester Maddox)
This is unacceptable and claims we used things to carve people's limbs are absurd,. (Quote by - Bayan Jabor)
I think that comparison is completely absurd. (Quote by - Charles Clarke)
I think it was absurd and the court thankfully reversed itself. The whole thing was quite absurd,. (Quote by - Daniel Rodriguez)
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change. (Quote by - Vice- President Dan Quayle)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing. (Quote by - von Goethe)
That's an absurdity, and Harland knows it. (Quote by - Cary Goldstein)
One can hardly imagine a more ridiculous and absurd interpretation. (Quote by - Sergei Yastrzhembsky)
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. (Quote by - Othal Brand)
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 a... (Quote by -Archibald Macleish)
The suggestion he was kidnapped is wrong, and absurd,. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre! (Quote by - Goethe)
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. (Quote by - Senior Pentagon official)
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. (Quote by - Napoleon)
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
I love California. I grew up in Phoenix. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. (Quote by - Mayor Marion Barry)
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave. (Quote by - Pepsi Ad slogan )
I used my pants to illustrate. (Quote by - Mike Singletary)
We don't want our players hanging around with murderers. (Quote by - Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird)
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The only way to come back and make that be the right decision would be to come back and win a Super Bowl. (Quote by - Brett Favre)
Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. (Quote by - George Raft)
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. (Quote by - Schopenhauer, Arthur)
Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase. (Quote by - James Clerk Maxwell)
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The commission is an absurd concept. It's overly broad. It's more powerful than any regulatory agency. (Quote by - Paul Jannuzzo)
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. (Quote by - John Adams)
That is an almost absurd result. (Quote by - Justice Judith Meierhenry)
I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip. (Quote by - Nathan Brookwood)
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
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 - Cicero)
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
The bishops' statement on mining is absurd. It sends all the wrong signals to investors. Those who were sitting on the fence will not be rushing in now. (Quote by - Peter Wallace)
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. (Quote by - Goethe)
His artistry soars to heights of sublime silliness and divine absurdity. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
Well, you know what? I still think I can. I do. (Quote by - Outgoing Syracuse football coach Greg Robinson)
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. (Quote by - Julio Cortázar)
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. (Quote by - David Lynch)
I think that the undecideds could go one way or the other. (Quote by - George Bush)
