Absurdity Quotes

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We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing… — David Lynch
No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who… — Jeffrey Lang
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,… — Thomas Merton
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by… — Christopher Hitchens
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at… — Henry Steele Commager
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied… — Immanuel Kant
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we… — Pope Benedict XVI
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow… — Franz Marc
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity. — Elbert Hubbard
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And… — Tomi Ungerer
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time.… — Christopher Tolkien
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of… — Gore Vidal
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of… — Leo Tolstoy
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look… — Richard Cobden
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the… — Emile M. Cioran

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