And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most…

“The second brother, Seriosha, had dark curly hair, a turned-up, strongly pronounced nose, very bright red lips (which, never being quite shut, showed a…

— Leo Tolstoy

“One can seldom admire what one loves.”

— Marcel Proust

It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Sherwood Anderson

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

— Walter Savage Landor

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because…

— Leo Tolstoy

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that…

— Thomas Paine

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he…

— Mary Astell

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room…

— William Osler

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a…

— Agnes Repplier

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

— Ori Gersht

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

— Aldous Huxley