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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 Soren Kierkegaard Albert Camus Mary Astell Frank McCourt Thomas Chandler Haliburton Bernard Levin Jonathan Nolan Francis Bacon Napoleon Bonaparte Tanya Huff Errol Morris Gilbert K. Chesterton Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Walter Savage Landor Nicolas Chamfort Thomas Paine Criss Jami Jonathan Edwards Francis Atterbury Natalie Clifford Barney Ralph Ellison Baruch Spinoza George Tyrrell Steig Larsson Wislawa Szymborska Maria Mitchell Tom Robbins Bill Vaughan Mason Cooley Nellie Melba Natasha Lyonne Samuel Beckett
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 whatever’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.
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.
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.
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
Jonathan Nolan

27.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

28.
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

29.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
Salman Rushdie

30.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt

31.
In politics,
an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

32.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor

33.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort

34.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Jonathan Edwards

35.
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
George Tyrrell

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 phrase ā€˜popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell

38.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
Bill Vaughan

39.
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
Sherwood Anderson

40.
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff

41.
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

42.
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand

43.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Soren Kierkegaard

44.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon

45.
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Mason Cooley

46.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne

47.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

48.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Voltaire

49.
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
Mac Barnett

50.
The absurd is sin without God.
Albert Camus