Absurdity Quotes

352 Absurdity quotes by 265 unique authors

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked,… — Golda Meir
The phrase â€˜popular scienceâ€™ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell
A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is… — Maria Mitchell
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends… — Saint Basil
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when… — David
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. — Frederick Lenz
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. — Vladimir Lenin
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal… — Daryl Gates
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a… — Winston Churchill
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. — Bill Vaughan
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death. — Bill Vaughan
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. — Oliver Goldsmith
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced… — Nicolaus Copernicus
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. — John Cusack
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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