Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

I had $60,000 for my first movie. I was 33 before I made any money off of movies. I worked my ass off for free. To get that I'm "enemy number one" among young kids is a little absurd.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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 I never had a star.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

It's absurd to warme one in his armour.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.