Absurd Quotes

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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. — Jean-Paul Sartre
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just… — Walter Lippmann
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,… — Eric Hoffer
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of… — Gore Vidal
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! — Robert Browning
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. — Albert Camus
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. — Albert Camus
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. — Daniel Berrigan
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as… — Thomas Merton
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence… — Adam Clarke

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