Absurd Quote by Idries Shah

“Popularity was an attractive snare. Only fools wanted attention at the expense of peace.”

— Bremer Acosta

“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”

— Idries Shah

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is…

— Albert Camus

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick…

— George Saunders

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

— Murray Rothbard

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

— George Saunders

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm…

— David Mamet

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

— Sadegh Hedayat

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France