Absurd Quotes

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His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her… — Holly Black
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear… — David Benioff
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry… — Virginia Woolf
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians… — Oscar Wilde
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You… — Oscar Wilde
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you… — Richard P. Feynman
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the… — Murray Rothbard
It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing… — Hilary Duff
If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along… — Erich von DÃ¤niken
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion — Simone de Beauvoir
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. — Jane Austen
You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully.… — Bernard Cornwell
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions,… — Vaclav Havel
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. — Daniil Kharms
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd… — Yann Martel
Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice. — Clare B. Dunkle
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. — Christopher Hitchens
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an… — Aristotle
You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"… — Michele Jaffe

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