Absurd Quotes
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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
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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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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
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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.
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We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.
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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
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I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
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'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.
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Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.
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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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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
