Absurd Quotes
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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.
Albert Camus
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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.
Rich Moore
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Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
Ray Stevenson
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
Tertullian
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Albert Camus
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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.
Richard Feynman
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Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
Kevin Costner
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Humor is the sense of the Absurd which is despair refusing to take itself seriously.
Arland Ussher
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One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
Galen Beckett
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert Camus
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
Blaise Pascal
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I believe because it is absurd.
Tertullian
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
Albert Camus
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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
Reza Aslan
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
Joseph Heller
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
Erlend Loe
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We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.
Howard Stern
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Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
Carson Kressley
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The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
Milton Glaser
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
Tones and I
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno
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It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.
Terry Eagleton