Absurd Quotes

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She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence… — Paulo Coelho
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual… — Charles Robert Maturin
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. — Oscar Wilde
Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her… — Lisi Harrison
If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is… — Anne Stuart
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd… — P.G. Wodehouse
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily… — Christopher Isherwood
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. — George R. R. Martin
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a… — Oscar Wilde
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of… — Karl Marlantes
One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot. — Galen Beckett
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. — Robert Jordan
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… — Stefan Zweig
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time… — Hugh Prather
I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a… — Marya Hornbacher
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely… — Fernando Pessoa

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