Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest… — Paul Washer
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre… — Jacques Vallee
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and… — Unknown Author
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the… — Aleister Crowley
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene. — Catherine Breillat
I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial. — Hayden Panettiere
I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd. — Unknown Author
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't… — Sophie Marceau
I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. — Rose McGowan
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom Courtenay
But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you… — Tim Curry
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot… — Javier Bardem
America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the… — Richard Gere
I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it does that and… — Rick Santorum
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. — Jennifer Beals
I have this dream where Little Chino keeps showing up at my door. I would have to kill him even though I was at home… — Michael C. Hall
Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not. — Carole Lombard

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