Absurd Quotes · Page 16

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their…

— Christopher Hitchens

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that.…

— Billie Jean King

That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

— Pat Buchanan

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

— Joshua Ferris

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

— Rush Limbaugh

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

— Oscar Wilde

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in…

— Paul Auster

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group…

— Jeremy Corbyn

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever…

— Oscar Wilde

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to…

— Richard Whately

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and…

— Jeff Baena

No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the…

— John Herschel

“Do you like flora and fauna? How about plants and animals? Because we have more of that beautiful crap than we know…

— Colin Nissan

One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd…

— Glenn Howerton

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

“I'm freestylin just on the microphone On the BBC, on the BBC I'm just freestylin on the BBC Um British Broadcasting Company…

— Flight of the Conchords

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie.…

— Melanie Laurent

“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,…

— Henry Miller

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

It does not take much technical knowledge to understand why the interlinking of rivers is an absurd idea and a ruinous project.

— Prashant Bhushan

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything….but getting a wicker basket to…

— Josh Stern

I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.

— David Baddiel

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

— Maurizio Cattelan

In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.

— Colson Whitehead

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

— Chloe Benjamin

“Don Severo dropped his fork, Doña Remedios nearly chocked, but Jesús carried on playing with his food. He’d never really liked broccoli.”

— Olga Núñez Miret

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

— Rene Char

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

— Stephen Karam

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is…

— Frederick Lenz

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we…

— Anonymous

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and…

— Gloria Steinem

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache…

— Anonymous

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and…

— Albert Camus