The Absurd Quotes

To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

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

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

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

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].

I like being absurd. Being silly.

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

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.

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.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

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

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.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.