The Absurd Quotes

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.