Absurd Quotes · Page 24

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

— Jimenez Lai

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and…

— Emma Goldman

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

— Wilhelm Reich

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

— Robert Jordan

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can…

— Alan Stern

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

— Barbara Pym

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

— Frank Zappa

One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got…

— Lou Doillon

Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That…

— Anna Thomas

I think it's very important to feed the body what it craves and not be in your head about it, panicking, carrying…

— Tracy Anderson

“Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized…

— Georges Braque

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…

— James Clerk Maxwell

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions…

— Tom Robbins

“There will be others, many others. You’ll try desperately to digest a single word through the acronym-laden gibberish, while beginning to wonder…

— Colin Nissan

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a…

— Norman Lear

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl…

— Richard Whately

I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report…

— Philip Gourevitch

“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that…

— proust

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

— Anuj

“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might…

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

— Henry Beston

“It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I like my coffee like I like myself…making rustling noises inside a burlap bag”

— Josh Stern

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?

— Jon Stewart

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

— Jennifer Saunders

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

— Randy Pitchford

“God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not…

— Merritt Y. Hughes

“You know, Maude . . . somebody meeting you for the first time -- not knowing you were cracked -- might get…

— Preston Sturges

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

— Aleister Crowley

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

— Kaskade

“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is…

— Albert Camus