Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation… — Thomas Szasz
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd... — Irene Nemirovsky
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the… — Will Tuttle
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which… — Peter Greenaway
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. — Alice Walker
If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and… — Unknown Author
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic… — Albert Camus
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. — Dave Eggers
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable… — Fernando Pessoa
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of… — Frederick The Great
It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday — Jamie O'Neill
The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request,… — Colin Jordan
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present… — Jack Gilbert
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… — Simone de Beauvoir
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in… — Chris Hedges
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. — Benito Mussolini
If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.… — Tom Robbins
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,… — Emile Durkheim
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is… — Walter Scott

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