The Absurd Quotes

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.