Absurd Quotes

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It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is… — Paul Goodman
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. — Marya Hornbacher
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and… — Marguerite Yourcenar
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives… — Henri Nouwen
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to… — Leo Tolstoy
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it… — Hermann Hesse
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his… — Thomas Mann
Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the… — Steig Larsson
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the… — Eckhart Tolle
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our… — Sheldon Vanauken
For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this… — Albert Camus
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on… — Albert Camus
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would… — Amanda Hocking
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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