Absurd Quotes
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.
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.
Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.