Absurd Quote by Thomas Paine

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building…

— Henry David Thoreau

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

— Lee Hsien Loong

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

— Paul Theroux

We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories,…

— Vladimir Putin

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me,…

— Paul Theroux

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

— David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

— Stella Benson

“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch…

— Douglas Adams

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

— Albert Camus