Absurd Quotes

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The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of… — Virchand Gandhi
Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be… — Carson Kressley
Absurd, irreducible; nothing â€” not even a profound and secret delirium of nature â€” could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptreeâ€™s writing.… — Robert Silverberg
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content… — Rick Riordan
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. — Benjamin Zander
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur… — Arthur Schopenhauer
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to… — Rajneesh
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun. — Oscar Wilde
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own… — Georges Braque
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men… — John Fowles
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater… — Norman Mailer

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