Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The absurd is sin without God.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

The logic of the heart is absurd

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

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

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.