absurd Quotes

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens Ђ' they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the g

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, \'You know, I gotta do this.\'

Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

\'Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine.'