Absurdity Quotes

352 Absurdity quotes by 265 unique authors

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… — Noam Chomsky
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images Iâ€™ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real… — Fernando Pessoa
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each… — Erin Gruwell
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has… — Thomas Paine
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. — T. J. Miller
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large… — Charlie Pierce
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to… — Willie Geist
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall… — Henry Rollins
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to… — Eleanor Catton
The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles;… — Marshall Herskovitz
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me,… — Israel Horovitz
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking… — Glen Duncan
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of… — Michael Hastings
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are… — William H. Seward
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the… — Thomas Mellon
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in… — Neil LaBute

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