Absurdity Quotes - Page 2

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

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

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.

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