Best 153 quotes in «absurdity quotes» category

There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

The way earlier societies seem obviously absurd and cruel gives a kind of horror at the forces that must be at work in our own, but suggests that any society must have dramatically satisfying and dangerous conventions; and people can put up with almost any political conditions, either because they are lazy or because they are ambitious.

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity.

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

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

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

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.

To-do list : to-do list!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

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.

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

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

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

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.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Ignorance is the dominion of 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.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

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

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

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

The absurd is sin without God.

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.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.