Absurd Quotes

832 quotes by 611 authors

A man is an angel that has gone deranged. — Philip K. Dick
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking… — Mark Twain
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. — Alain Robbe-Grillet
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh,… — Terry Pratchett
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us? — Jon Stewart
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever… — Tim Burton
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's… — Dave Eggers
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus

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