Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")” — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence… — John Ray Copy Share Image
“Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
