Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. — Barbara Pym
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.… — David Korten
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... — Pope John Paul II
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that… — Annie Besant
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. — Bertrand Russell
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. — Dan Aykroyd
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.… — Rajneesh
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good… — Thomas A. Edison
The logic of the heart is absurd — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus

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