Absurd Quotes
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How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
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I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.
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...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...
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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
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The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
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Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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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."
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In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life
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Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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I trust Angela Merkel, she is a very open person. She is also subject to certain constraints and limitations. But she is honestly trying to settle the crisis, also in the south-east of Ukraine. However, what the European Union is doing with those sanctions is nothing but a theatre of the absurd.
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[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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The absurd is sin without God.
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
