The Absurd Quotes

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels, and just how absurd that really was. That that actually happened.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.

In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

It's absurd to warme one in his armour.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.