Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop… — Terry Pratchett
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brotherâ€™s crazy. He thinks heâ€™s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why donâ€™t you turn… — Woody Allen
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban… — Grant Morrison
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless? — Mark Slouka
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and… — W. Somerset Maugham
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance.… — Stanley Kubrick
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. — Julio Cortazar
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and… — Nancy Mitford
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends… — Oscar Wilde
How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught… — Kristin Cashore
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious… — Andre Breton
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be… — Albert Camus

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