Absurd Quotes · Page 27

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

— Randy Pitchford

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Jennifer Saunders

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

— Jon Stewart

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

— Yue Minjun

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will…

— Charles Robert Maturin

I, Tonya' is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which…

— Paul Walter Hauser

“‎Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a…

— Mark Twain

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and…

— Octave Mirbeau

“You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every…

— Albert Camus

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So…

— Richard P. Feynman

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must…

— Albert Camus

My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in…

— Fernando Pessoa

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find…

— Charlotte Bronte

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of…

— Charles Darwin

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible…

— Murray Rothbard

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,…

— Richard Kirwan

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are…

— Voltaire

You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will…

— Leslie Charteris

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would…

— Bennett Miller

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the…

— Norman Mailer

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

— Albert Camus

“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 world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about…

— Anonymous

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but'…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

— Geoff Rickly

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

— Martin Esslin

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

— Reggie Watts

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

— Diodorus Siculus

“My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
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— Dora J. Arod

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

— Terry Eagleton

“When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.”

— Steven Wright