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Absurdity Quotes

1.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa Szymborska

Authors on Absurdity Quotes: David Lynch Nicolas Chamfort Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Walter Savage Landor Jonathan Edwards Francis Atterbury Thomas Paine Criss Jami Baruch Spinoza George Tyrrell Natalie Clifford Barney Ralph Ellison Maria Mitchell Steig Larsson Wislawa Szymborska Mason Cooley Nellie Melba Tom Robbins Bill Vaughan Daniel Day-Lewis Frederick Lenz Natasha Lyonne Samuel Beckett Paul Banks Frank Zappa Raoul Peck Upamanyu Chatterjee Michael Helm Francois de La Rochefoucauld Shaun Tan Ambrose Bierce Fyodor Dostoevsky Nathaniel Hawthorne
2.
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

3.
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
David Lynch

4.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch Spinoza

5.
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)
Samuel Beckett

6.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
Phil Ochs

7.
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
T. Colin Campbell

8.
To me absurdity is the only reality
Frank Zappa

9.
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
Denis Diderot

10.
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

11.
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whateverā€™s going on.
Jon Stewart

12.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss Jami

13.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

14.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
Francis Atterbury

15.
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
Nellie Melba

16.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

17.
I used my pants to illustrate.
Mike Singletary

18.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

19.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

20.
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell

21.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin

22.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

23.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

24.
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
James Anthony Froude

25.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust

26.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

27.
For any truth, if ā€œoverdoneā€ (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
Vladimir Lenin

28.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
Salman Rushdie

29.
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
Jonathan Nolan

30.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor

31.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort

32.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Jonathan Edwards

33.
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph Ellison

34.
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
George Tyrrell

35.
The phrase ā€˜popular scienceā€™ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell

36.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
Bill Vaughan

37.
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
Sherwood Anderson

38.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt

39.
In politics,
an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

40.
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.
Shaun Tan

41.
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand

42.
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff

43.
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Mason Cooley

44.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne

45.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

46.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Voltaire

47.
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
Mac Barnett

48.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Soren Kierkegaard

49.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon

50.
Do not sanction an absurdity.
Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis