Absurd Quotes

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I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an… — Billie Jean King
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend â€” and we cannot comprehend God; we can only… — Immanuel Kant
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must… — Leonard Woolf
There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the… — Steve Ballmer
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow… — James Hillman
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of… — Julie Mehretu
Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my… — Becca Fitzpatrick
When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way. — Jacque Fresco
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To… — Henry David Thoreau
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. — Jarvis Cocker
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And… — Tomi Ungerer
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more… — Al Sharpton
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. — May Sarton
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. — Frederick Herzberg
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers… — George S. Patton
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to… — Spencer W. Kimball
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the… — Alice Miller
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd. — Rachel Maddow

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