The Absurd Quotes

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.