Absurd Quotes

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this."

I believe because it is absurd.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Life is fragile and absurd.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

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

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

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.