Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd. — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
It is rather absurd on its face to suggest that the president of the United States should not be managing his own… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The bed was absurd—some kind of soft, supportive cloud that was probably made from spun gold or unicorn mane.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable… — Mary McGrory 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
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to… — Moby Copy Share Image
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
You might sit at your computer, thinking you own and control your own ideas but it doesn't take long before you realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius 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 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
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
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
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
“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
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. — Jonathan Ames 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
“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
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
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
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
