absurd Quotes

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I heard you're campaigning on my behalf.\' He walked over to me. \'That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?\' \'Don't be absurd,\' I scoffed. \'I don't condone murder, even for people like you.\' \'People like me,huh?\' He cocked an eyebrow. \'You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?\' \'You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet,\' I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. \'Semantics.

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Love\' and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.