Absurdity Quotes · Page 2

A king without power is an absurdity.

— James Monroe

“Marriage needed the absurdity of values.”

— Manu Joseph

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

— Frank McCourt

“To-do list : to-do list!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

— Frederick Lenz

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“the absurdity of a smoking skyscraper.”

— Hugh Howey

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

— Bertrand Russell

“I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.”

— Ralph Ellison

“Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.”

— Haruki Murakami

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

— Marcel Proust

“Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.”

— Lita Burke

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

— Peter Sunde

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult…

— Doris Lessing

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them…

— George Carlin

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side…

— Catherine Camus

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what…

— Mac Barnett

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to…

— Jason Bateman

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the…

— Rainn Wilson

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to…

— Tomi Ungerer

The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what…

— Brené Brown

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling…

— John Fowles

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less…

— John Dryden

If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death;…

— Jonathan Hull

"Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm…

— George R. R. Martin

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me…

— Israel Horovitz

“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of…

— Thomas Paine

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public…

— Norman Angell

“I’m so old that I often tell myself, on nights when multitudes of stars are sparkling in the sky, there must necessarily…

— Kamel Daoud

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical…

— Aldous Huxley