The Absurd Quotes

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

The absurd is sin without God.

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.