In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise. — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
“Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The bed was absurd—some kind of soft, supportive cloud that was probably made from spun gold or unicorn mane.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is rather absurd on its face to suggest that the president of the United States should not be managing his own… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“TEACHER Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like -- STUDENT I wud like -- TEACHER To feed your fingertips --… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
