Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. — William Wharton
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… — Thomas Mann
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a… — Erlend Loe
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie. — Daniel Handler
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that… — Khaled Hosseini
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was… — Charles Bukowski
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it.… — Dale Carnegie
I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the… — Cassandra Clare
I thought to myself: if itâ€™s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I… — Sadegh Hedayat
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your… — Laurence Sterne
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want… — John Taylor Gatto
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken… — Albert Camus
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as… — William James
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano… — Sydney J. Harris
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. — Robin Morgan
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. — William James
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something… — Nirmala Srivastava
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in… — Albert Einstein

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