Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. — Woody Allen
The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left,… — Nick Clegg
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of… — Thomas Jefferson
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd. — Jimmy Fallon

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