Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their… — Plato
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.… — Unknown Author
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. — Milton Glaser
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one… — Thomas A. Edison
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just… — Jennifer Lawrence
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. — Danny DeVito
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best… — Alice Hegan Rice
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout
Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive… — Louis Aragon
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be… — Alva Myrdal
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter.… — Charles Grandison Finney
The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to… — Alan Keyes
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the… — Thomas Sowell
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want… — Unknown Author
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to… — Baron d'Holbach
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of… — George Berkeley
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi
It is absurd to look for perfection. — Camille Pissarro
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein

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