Absurd Quotes

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The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating… — Armand Salacrou
Take one step to the side and it's all absurd. — Leonard Cohen
The absurd man is he who never changes. — Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? — Vicesimus Knox
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without… — Franklin Pierce
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. — Barbara Pym
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.… — David Korten
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... — Pope John Paul II
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that… — Annie Besant
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. — Bertrand Russell
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. — Dan Aykroyd
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare

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