Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that. — Groucho Marx
The word â€˜slaveryâ€™ and â€˜rightâ€™ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
At the time weâ€™re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to… — Stephen King
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. — Albert Camus
Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. — Steven Wright
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… — Charlotte Bronte
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the… — Angela Carter
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents,… — Benito Mussolini
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to… — William Godwin
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and… — Paul Auster
It is absurd to ape our betters. — Aesop
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus
Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in… — Christopher Paolini
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on… — Simone de Beauvoir
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin

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