Absurd Quotes

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

Life is fragile and absurd.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Naked guy think Hulk stupid?”

— Mark Millar

The absurd man is he who never changes.

— Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

It is to believed because it is absurd.

— Tertullian

Everything is absurd.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Applaud my idiocy.”

— Conan O'Brien

All theatre is absurd.

— Eugene Ionesco

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

— Hayden Panettiere

“I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers”

— Josh Stern

Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.

— Shamna Kasim

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

— Mark Slouka

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

— Bruce Cockburn

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

— Ray Stevenson

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

— Spencer Krug

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world

— Voltaire

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

— Britney Spears

“The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard”

— Josh Stern

“Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

— Magnus Larsson

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

— Seymour Papert

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

— Josh Brolin

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no…

— Kurt Braunohler

“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In…

— Vilém Flusser

It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only…

— Maria Edgeworth

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I…

— Harriet Lerner

I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels,…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create…

— Sidney Blumenthal

Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into…

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any…

— John Hunter

“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ…

— Robert Ingersoll

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,…

— Anonymous

“Raining. Oh, brother, a scratch on the fender. Damn rabbi on his unicycle. Wait a minute, where are my car keys? Could…

— Woody Allen

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative…

— Martin Esslin

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his…

— Paul Feyerabend

Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,…

— Jeremiah Wright

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily…

— Thomas Merton

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal…

— Anonymous