Absurdity Quotes
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)
To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity.
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.
We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.
The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.
They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.
People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.
The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.
The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...
