Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just… — Walter Lippmann
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,… — Eric Hoffer
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of… — Gore Vidal
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! — Robert Browning
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. — Albert Camus
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. — Albert Camus
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. — Daniel Berrigan
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as… — Thomas Merton
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence… — Adam Clarke
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the… — Leonard Maltin
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects… — Thom Mayne
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics. — Kal Penn
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write… — Dennis Lehane
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems… — Eric Liu
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to… — William Eldridge Odom
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be. — Ray Stevenson
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd. — Frederick Lenz
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. — Frederick Lenz
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety… — Nancy Sinatra

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