Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

Life is fragile and absurd.

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

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

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

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

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The absurd is sin without God.

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

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

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

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

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.

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

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 best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The logic of the heart is absurd

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

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.

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.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

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