Absurdity Quotes

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While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their… — Matilda Joslyn Gage
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… — Simone de Beauvoir
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were… — Stefan Kieszling
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. — Alexander Herzen
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without… — Thomas Hobbes
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams… — Barack Obama
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. — Sherwood Anderson
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good… — Charles Spurgeon
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to… — Terence McKenna
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. — Agatha Christie
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one… — Ayn Rand
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. — Natasha Lyonne
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the… — Aldous Huxley
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part,… — David Lynch
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make… — David Lynch
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is… — David Lynch
Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit.… — David Lynch
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes… — David Lynch
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to… — David Lynch

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