Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus 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
“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
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman 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
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's… — Shakira 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
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
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis,… — Luis Alberto Urrea 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
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature -… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Likewise, if Kafka wants to express the absurd, he will make use of consistency. You know the story of the crazy man… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A global awakening can not happen. We all live in different time zones.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“A missed opportunity? It is like surviving an assassination attempt.” — Ljupka Cvetanova 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
When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone. — Pam Bondi Copy Share Image
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lo que llamamos absurdo es nuestra ignorancia. Los Premios, 1960 What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
