Absurdity Quotes

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

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.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

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

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

The absurd is sin without God.

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

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

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.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

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!

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.