Best 153 quotes in «absurdity quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

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.

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.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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

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

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

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 rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

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

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?

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

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

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.