Absurd Quotes - Page 5

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

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

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

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