Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

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.

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

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

'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 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 be interested in food but not in food production is clearly 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.

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

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.

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

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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?

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

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.

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