“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice. — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you… — Nicole McKay Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a… — John Major Copy Share Image
I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics. — Kal Penn Copy Share Image
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like… — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image