Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I like being absurd. Being silly.

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 like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

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

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

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.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

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, 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.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

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

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

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

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or 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 thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.