Absurd Quotes

832 quotes by 611 authors

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that… — Kathleen Turner
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall… — David Lynch
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. — Claire Forlani
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass… — Kirk Cameron
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama. — Peter Billingsley
Our plans are small and somewhat absurd. — Barbara Kingsolver
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. — Rene Char
With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems. — Sally Jessy Raphael
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd. — Yi-Fu Tuan
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a… — Max Lucado
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the… — Reza Aslan
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. — Zadie Smith
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was… — Arthur C. Clarke
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. — L. Frank Baum
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories… — James Daly
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller

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