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Absurdity Quotes

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

Authors on Absurdity Quotes: David Lynch Arthur Schopenhauer Mike Singletary James Anthony Froude Sherwood Anderson Denis Diderot Jon Stewart Marcel Proust Voltaire Phil Ochs George Sand Mac Barnett Salman Rushdie Albert Camus Mary Astell Frank McCourt Soren Kierkegaard Bernard Levin Jonathan Nolan Francis Bacon Thomas Chandler Haliburton Errol Morris Gilbert K. Chesterton Napoleon Bonaparte Tanya Huff Nicolas Chamfort Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Walter Savage Landor Criss Jami Jonathan Edwards Francis Atterbury Thomas Paine Baruch Spinoza
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

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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

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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.
I used my pants to illustrate.
Mike Singletary

17.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

18.
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

19.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin

20.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

21.
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

22.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

23.
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
James Anthony Froude

24.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust

25.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

26.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
Salman Rushdie

27.
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
Jonathan Nolan

28.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

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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

30.
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
Sherwood Anderson

31.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt

32.
In politics,
an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

33.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor

34.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort

35.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Jonathan Edwards

36.
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph Ellison

37.
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
George Tyrrell

38.
The phrase ā€˜popular scienceā€™ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell

39.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
Bill Vaughan

40.
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand

41.
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff

42.
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

43.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Voltaire

44.
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
Mac Barnett

45.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon

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

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

49.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

50.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Errol Morris