Absurdity Quotes

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

I used my pants to illustrate.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

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.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.