Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion… — Blaise Pascal
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits… — John Updike
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating… — Salman Rushdie
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. — Albert Camus
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. — Kathleen Norris
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. — Murray Rothbard
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible… — Hermann Hesse
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness… — Bertrand Russell
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the… — John Steinbeck
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent… — Agatha Christie
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to… — Oscar Wilde
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions â€¦… — Jean-Paul Sartre
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children… — Muriel Barbery
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all… — Joseph Heller
Life is fragile and absurd. — Leo Tolstoy
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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