Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because we're not like I said, we're not journalists. And at that point, there's nothing sort of funny or absurd or to say about it.

We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

A existência inteira, para um homem afastado do eterno, não passa de uma imitação desmesurada sob a máscara do absurdo.

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug!

A brick and a blanket together create a blick. That’s it. That’s all I got.

A man can love her woman, or he can be her husband.

After the elections, voters are never given an applause.