Best 153 quotes in «absurdity quotes» category

Viver, naturalmente, nunca é fácil. Continuamos fazendo os gestos que a existência impõe por muitos motivos, o primeiro dos quais é o costume. Morrer por vontade própria supõe que se reconheceu, mesmo instintivamente, o caráter ridículo desse costume, a ausência de qualquer motivo profundo para viver, o caráter insensato da agitação cotidiana e a inutilidade do sofrimento. Qual é então o sentimento incalculável que priva o espírito do sono necessário para a vida? Um mundo que se pode explicar, mesmo com raciocínios errôneos, é um mundo familiar. Mas num universo repentinamente privado de ilusões e de luzes, pelo contrário, o homem se sente um estrangeiro. É um exílio sem solução, porque está privado das lembranças de uma pátria perdida ou da esperança de uma terra prometida. Esse divórcio entre o homem e sua vida, o ator e seu cenário é propriamente o sentimento do absurdo. E como todos os homens sadios já pensaram no seu próprio suicídio, pode-se reconhecer, sem maiores explicações, que há um laço direto entre tal sentimento e a aspiração ao nada.

We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity.

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

You better put an S on your forehead, cause your name must be stupid.

What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?

When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.

Women there is no perfect man! Don't waste your money on make-up!

You may not be interested in absurdity," she said firmly, "but absurdity is interested in you.

Your only chance of survival, if you are severely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances. What sadness there is in this simple observation! What an accusation against man! Love makes you weak, and the weaker of the two is oppressed, tortured, and finally killed by the other, who in his or her turn oppresses, tortures, and kills without having evil intentions, without even getting pleasure from it, with complete indifference; that's what men, normally, call love.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

The absurd is sin without God.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of