Absurd Quotes · Page 20

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

— Ana Navarro

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always think it's absurd when people go, 'How can you have a show about Batman without Batman?' 'Gotham' is plenty fascinating,…

— Donal Logue

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be…

— Marya Hornbacher

It seemed absurd. But the fact is that the establishment in this country still does not open its arms to Catholics.

— Princess Michael of Kent

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the…

— Jane Austen

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

— Andrew Bird

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody…

— John Lydon

My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to…

— Boris Johnson

Every man knows about a particular body part that often seems to have a mind of its own. And every woman knows…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient…

— David Bentley Hart

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the…

— Stefan Zweig

We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating…

— Karen Marie Moning

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college…

— Jon Krakauer

“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.…

— Don Winslow

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good…

— Thomas Bernhard

In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than…

— Charles William Chadwick Oman

It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an…

— Arundhati Roy

I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually…

— Greg Saunier

That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

“It is a matter of persisting. At a certain point on his path the absurd man is tempted. History is not lacking…

— Albert Camus

It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -…

— Rob Bell

“It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd…

— Michael Ventura

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

— Eric Andre

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is…

— Claude Bernard

“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant…

— Anonymous

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

— Thomas A. Edison

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

— Stephen Fry

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like -…

— Anthony Powell

My home gym is, I don't want to say absurd, but if every gym in the world was shut down I wouldn't…

— Mat Fraser

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

— Samuel Pepys

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

— Tom Courtenay

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

— James McBride

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

— Voltaire

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

— R. D. Laing

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

— Yi-Fu Tuan

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.”

— Steven Wright