Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

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.

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.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

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.

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

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

It is absurd to ape our betters.

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

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 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, 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.

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

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

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.

It's absurd to warme one in his armour.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

Life is fragile and absurd.

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

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The absurd is sin without God.