Absurdity Quotes

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

— David Lynch

Annihilation is an absurdity in terms.

— Bernard Palissy

“Not everyone has the time to be normal.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

— Michael Helm

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

— James Anthony Froude

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

— Francis Bacon

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

— Raoul Peck

“Be serious,” said Enjolras. “I am wild,” replied Grantaire.”

— Victor Hugo

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

— Julio Cortazar

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

— Jonathan Nolan

“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.”

— Brian Spellman

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

— Thomas Sowell

“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?”

— Sherwood Anderson

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence…

— John Ray

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the…

— Martine Syms

“Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you…

— M.T. Anderson

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must…

— Anonymous

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect.…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,…

— Bertrand Russell

But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when…

— David Lynch

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business…

— Charlie Pierce

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned…

— Felix Guattari

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this…

— Patrick Warburton

People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative…

— David Salle

“Where is the absurdity of the world? Is it this resplendent glow or the memory of its absence? With so much sun…

— Albert Camus

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of…

— Thomas Paine

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one…

— Mary Baker Eddy

“I’m so old that I often tell myself, on nights when multitudes of stars are sparkling in the sky, there must necessarily…

— Kamel Daoud

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public…

— Norman Angell

The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -…

— Martin Esslin

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,…

— Barack Obama

“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the…

— David Lynch