Absurd Quotes

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Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… — Simone de Beauvoir
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in… — Chris Hedges
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. — Benito Mussolini
If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.… — Tom Robbins
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,… — Emile Durkheim
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is… — Walter Scott
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which… — Catherine Crowe
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track… — Al Gore
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be… — Albert Camus
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. — Alain de Botton
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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