Absurd Quotes · Page 5

“We can provide you democracy. When do you need it?”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

— Harvey Pekar

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

— John Henry Newman

“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

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Michael Helm

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

— Victor Hugo

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that.…

— Billie Jean King

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

— Oscar Wilde

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

— Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

— Evelyn Waugh

I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.

— David Baddiel

When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification…

— Kamala Lopez

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of…

— Simon Greenleaf

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but…

— Anonymous

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they…

— Angela Carter

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into…

— Robert Webb

“How absurd is it that when we are in love, we divide the world into two. One that holds our lover and…

— Kamand Kojouri

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea…

— Friedrich Schiller

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over…

— Max Lucado

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing…

— Anne Rice

“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about…

— Kathryn Schulz

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of…

— Thomas Paine

“The teacher took two long strides and stood beside Parker’s desk. Before the boy could speak, Mr. Earl threw the desktop open.…

— James van Pelt

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before…

— Nancy Mitford

“Do you like flora and fauna? How about plants and animals? Because we have more of that beautiful crap than we know…

— Colin Nissan

“What is an immortality?! To outlive oneself.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

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

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

— Dan Simmons

Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd.

— David Baddiel

Luckily, my mom and dad both have a pretty absurd sense of humor.

— Edi Patterson

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Women there is no perfect man! Don't waste your money on make-up!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova