Absurd Quotes - Page 4

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

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

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.