Absurd Quotes
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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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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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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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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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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
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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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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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[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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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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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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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 realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
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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.
