absurd quotes

• The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. (Albert Camus) [absurd/take]
• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [matter/absurd]
• There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. (Marcus Cicero) [absurd]
• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side. (Oliver Goldsmith) [absurd/time/sun/light]
• It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. (Victor Hugo) [creation/human/absurd/religion]
• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. (Laurence Sterne) [absurd/right/shame/defeat]
• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. (John Updike) [time/absurd]
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. (Oscar Wilde) [absurd/people/people]
• I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. (Oscar Wilde) [absurd/attitude/take/life]
• I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. (Claire Forlani) [absurd]
• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. (Stanley Tucci) [demand/absurd/reality]
• It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene. (Kathleen Turner) [money/absurd/day/age]
• “I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.” (Penelope Cruz) [love/life/absurd]
• I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. (Sophie Marceau) [/absurd]
• These days you have these kids who are hyped in one movie, which doesn't even necessarily do anything. Just the rules and boundaries are just absurd. (Jason Patric) [movie/absurd]
• I am such a sucker for reality television. It's almost like it's so absurd that you can't stop watching it. I just think it's a phase and people will get over it. (Kate Hudson) [reality/television/absurd/think]
• There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. (Claudia Black) [absurd]
• They said at the time I was doing The Greek Tycoon that I wasn't really doing her. For whatever reason, they kept insisting that this wasn't really her story, and I said, That's absurd. (Jacqueline Bisset) [time/absurd]
• My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. (George Gordon Byron) [mind/absurd/point]
• Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac. (Javier Bardem) [absurd/people]
• The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. (Tom Courtenay) [film/business/absurd/more]
• We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. (Heston Blumenthal) [money/absurd]

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