Absurd Quotes - Page 7

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this absurd act of pissing on a chair rather than in a toilet or on the ground, and this minimal act being so transgressive, even though no major harm is done.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd."

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

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

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.