Absurd Quotes · Page 23

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.”

— James Maxey

Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from…

— Tom Burke

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Natasha Leggero

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life…

— Hermann Hesse

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

— Dominic Cooper

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

— Claire Danes

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace…

— Boris Johnson

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of…

— Eric Hoffer

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political…

— James Bovard

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the…

— David Longstreth

There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which…

— Anne Applebaum

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean -…

— Paul Merton

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions…

— Tom Robbins

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is…

— Nathaniel Branden

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American…

— Henry Giroux

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is…

— Voltaire

It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience…

— Hari Kondabolu

“BRET She looked like a Parisian river.. JEMAINE What, dirty? BRET She looked like a chocolate eclair.. JEMAINE That's rare. BRET Her…

— Flight of the Conchords

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…

— Marcus du Sautoy

According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430…

— Jacques Ellul

“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.”

— Idries Shah

Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.

— Patti Harrison

“Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a…

— Dean Cavanagh

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

— Michael Kinsley

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

— Robert Breault

“It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow…

— Catherine Lacey

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.

— Karen Marie Moning

“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Claudia Black

“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might…

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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

— Anuj

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

— Frank Zappa

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

— Barbara Pym

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can…

— Alan Stern

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower