Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. — M.C. Escher
I like being absurd. Being silly. — Jimmy Fallon
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and… — Harvey Fierstein
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured… — Alexander Hamilton
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable… — Sam Harris
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole… — Christopher Hitchens
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling… — Tom Hodgkinson
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. — Aldous Huxley
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. — Franz Kafka
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand… — Soren Kierkegaard
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that… — Willem de Kooning
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real… — David Lynch
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of… — Seth MacFarlane
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the… — Norman Mailer
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. — John Malkovich
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted… — David Mamet
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… — Thomas Mann
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and… — Steve Martin
I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. — Kevin McCloud
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell

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