Absurdity Quotes · Page 20

Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to…

— Jonathan Evison

“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major…

— John Adams

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

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

— Jonathan Edwards

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.…

— Isak Dinesen

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

— Charles Fourier

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I…

— Aasif Mandvi

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

— Julio Cortazar

“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

— Michael Helm

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

— Jon Stewart

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

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

— Will Durant

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

— Raoul Peck

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

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should…

— Charles Spurgeon

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word…

— Thomas Paine

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

— Oswald Mosley

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

— Carl von Clausewitz

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined…

— William Hazlitt

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

— Voltaire