Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Credo quia absurdum â€“ I believe because it is absurd. — Robert Ludlum
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You… — Paulo Coelho
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,… — Gaston Leroux
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been… — George Carlin
After all the thousand times Iâ€™ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it… — Stephenie Meyer
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,… — Italo Calvino
The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists,… — Steig Larsson
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be… — Francoise Sagan
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said.… — John Flanagan
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away… — Milan Kundera
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly.… — Aimee Friedman

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