Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform… — Albert Camus
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. — Alice Munro
I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd… — Maggie Stiefvater
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,… — Thomas Paine
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very… — Albert Camus
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd. — Francis Chan
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me. — Karen Marie Moning
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove… — Blaise Pascal
pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more. — Charles Bukowski
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the… — Albert Camus
The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov… — Albert Camus
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
No people find each other more absurd than lovers — C.S. Lewis
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s… — Andre Gide
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart. — Peter Watts
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano

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