Absurdity Quotes

352 Absurdity quotes by 265 unique authors

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India. — Upamanyu Chatterjee
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?… — Roger Cotes
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It… — Chester Himes
If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite… — Jonathan Hull
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. — Baruch Spinoza
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the… — Rajneesh
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. — Unknown Author
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men… — John Fowles
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater… — Norman Mailer
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long… — Vincent Van Gogh
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of… — John Constable
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. — John Philpot Curran
I used my pants to illustrate. — Mike Singletary
Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field. — Al Davis
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan MiloseviÄ‡
Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. — George Raft

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