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“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside…

— Lauren Oliver

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It…

— Peter Dinklage

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is…

— Albert Camus

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick…

— George Saunders

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

— Murray Rothbard

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

— George Saunders

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm…

— David Mamet

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

— Sadegh Hedayat

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

— J. C. Ryle

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann