It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob… — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not. — Carole Lombard Copy Share Image
“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels…” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Ducks like balloons. Think about THAT next time your child has a birthday party and you choose to not invite all of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Religion is beyond the realm of logic, but if any priest, pundit or maulvi tries to justify his religion with logic, it… — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image