Absurd Quotes - Page 2

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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

It is absurd to look for perfection.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

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

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

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

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

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

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