absurd Quotes

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesЂ'mapping, charting, and architectureЂ'to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there's only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran's old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I'd had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I'd been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt's shoulders. Well

For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend Ђ' and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.

That's absurd,\' I said with a little laugh. \'Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?

Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an \'externality.\' This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

I am interested only in \'nonsense\'; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully. 'How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.