Absurdity Quotes
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa Szymborska, “Possibilities”
"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.
"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.
Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.97, Faber & Faber
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
T. Colin Campbell (2014). “The Low-Carb Fraud”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
"Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
"The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.
Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
Philadelphia Inquirer interview, April 22, 2007.
Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage
Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社
Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.34
Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.41, Cambridge University Press
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.243, Macmillan
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”