“It's the sort of absurd notion, though, that I wouldn't mind taking out for a good academic run someday.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“This is absurd. This is awful. This isn’t how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just… — Moby Copy Share Image
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Koreans are worried about the Japanese right-wing people, who tend to be against foreigners. But the Koreans in Japan aren't even foreigners.… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire… — Metrodorus of Chios Copy Share Image
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“There's a fine line between stuff, and if you stare at it long enough it'll drive you insane or to genius” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Love is just the chocolate-coated realization you're going to spend the rest of your life with a person and unfortunately it melts… — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by… — David Cook Copy Share Image
It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is absolutely absurd that someone who is deemed unsafe to get on an airplane is allowed to buy a gun in… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. — William James Copy Share Image
If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. — John Cage Copy Share Image