The Absurd Quotes

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

The logic of the heart is absurd

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.