Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which… — Catherine Crowe
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track… — Al Gore
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be… — Albert Camus
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. — Alain de Botton
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something that… — Wojciech Kurtyka
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is. — James McBride
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. — Eugene Ionesco
Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the… — Pope Francis
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. — N. T. Wright
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J C Ryle
If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting… — Charles Grandison Finney
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to… — Baron de Montesquieu
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause. — David Hume
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might… — J C Ryle
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. — Mother Teresa
It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ. — Paul Washer
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. — Albert Camus
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. — R. D. Laing

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