Absurd Quotes · Page 4

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd

— Voltaire

“He was absurd to the point of inspiration.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I hate fake people. You know what I’m talking about. Mannequins.”

— Jarod Kintz

“2 minutes in heaven is better than 1 minute in heaven.”

— Flight of the Conchords

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

— Antonin Scalia

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

— Robert Browning

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

— Albert Einstein

“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.”

— Brian Spellman

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

— Ellen Glasgow

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

— Baruch Spinoza

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

— Woody Allen

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

— Jon Lovett

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick…

— Voltaire

There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.

— Tones and I

The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets…

— Anonymous

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about…

— John Locke

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way…

— Giuseppe Verdi

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to…

— Richard Whately

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Theater is such an absurd thing. It should be made fun of. But it's also produced some of the most beautiful things…

— Molly Gordon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies.…

— Louis Aragon

Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are…

— Colin Powell

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving…

— Charlotte Bronte

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some…

— Samuel Johnson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something…

— Brian Henson

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace,…

— W. H. Auden

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is…

— William James

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you…

— Stephen Colbert

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

— Albert Einstein

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

— Tim Heidecker

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

— Victor Hugo

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

— Michael Helm

“After the elections, voters are never given an applause.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

— Dan Simmons

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr