Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
