Absurdity Quotes

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

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

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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.)

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

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

To me absurdity is the only reality

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

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

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

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

I used my pants to illustrate.

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

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.

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

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

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

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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

For any truth, if “overdone” (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.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

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

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

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

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

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

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

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

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

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.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

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.

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

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

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

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

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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