Absurd Quotes

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Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one… — Maxwell Maltz
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. — Anthony Hope
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people… — James Bovard
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious...… — William Lloyd Garrison
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. — Robert Browning
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture… — Nancy Lancaster
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… — William Butler Yeats
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around… — Fernando Pessoa
A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be… — Bill Bowerman
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury
The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating… — G. Edward Griffin
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. — Jon Ronson
Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism… — Barry Tompkins

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