Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

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

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

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

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.

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

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 like being absurd. Being silly.

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

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