“To portray your life in order would be absurd: I remember you at random.” — Eduoard Leve Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is… — Jack Wilshere Copy Share Image
With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief… — Sally Jessy Raphael Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The way Spain has now behaved in Catalonia, after the referendum, is a total disgrace. If this continues, it will all reach… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image