Absurd Quotes

Life is fragile and absurd.

— Leo Tolstoy

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

“Naked guy think Hulk stupid?”

— Mark Millar

The absurd man is he who never changes.

— Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

It is to believed because it is absurd.

— Tertullian

“Applaud my idiocy.”

— Conan O'Brien

Everything is absurd.

— Fernando Pessoa

All theatre is absurd.

— Eugene Ionesco

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

— Bruce Cockburn

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

— Mark Slouka

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.

— Shamna Kasim

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

— Hayden Panettiere

“I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers”

— Josh Stern

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

— Reggie Watts

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

— Luc de Clapiers

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

— Randall Terry

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could…

— Albert Camus

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

— Michael Leunig

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me…

— James Frey

I've learned to live with my consequences, I dont need this nonsense and the third cause to me all this is absurd

— Youngmarkz

We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to…

— Howard Stern

They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer…

— Graham Greene

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just…

— Steven Wright

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never…

— Charles Darwin

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…

— Sam Harris

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows…

— Oswald Mosley

As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it…

— Helen Lawrenson

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of…

— Blaise Pascal

It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any…

— John Hunter

I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it…

— Rick Santorum

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration…

— Jack Gilbert

It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of…

— Giovanna Cau

If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes…

— Thomas A. Edison

In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe…

— Hugh Herr

If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave…

— Erich von Däniken

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period…

— John Shelby Spong

The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance…

— Raimon Panikkar