Quotes about Absurd

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Votes: 4

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. Votes: 4

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Votes: 4

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Votes: 4

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. Votes: 4

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Votes: 4

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Votes: 4

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. Votes: 3

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was. Votes: 3

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. Votes: 3

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. Votes: 3

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Votes: 3

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Votes: 3

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders. Votes: 3

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit Votes: 3

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. Votes: 3

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. Votes: 3

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method. Votes: 3

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Votes: 3

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. Votes: 3

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. Votes: 3

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. Votes: 3

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. Votes: 3

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. Votes: 3

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare Votes: 3

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. Votes: 3

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere? Votes: 3

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. Votes: 3

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. Votes: 3

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Votes: 3

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. Votes: 3

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. Votes: 3

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. Votes: 3

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Votes: 3

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. Votes: 3

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. Votes: 3

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Votes: 1

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. Votes: 1

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Votes: 1

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Votes: 1

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time. Votes: 1

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. Votes: 1

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. Votes: 1

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. Votes: 1

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Votes: 1

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower. Votes: 1

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them. Votes: 1

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. Votes: 1

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Votes: 1

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. Votes: 1

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. Votes: 1

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters. Votes: 1

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. Votes: 1

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct. Votes: 1

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. Votes: 1

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. Votes: 1

Everything is absurd. Votes: 0

Life is fragile and absurd. Votes: 0

The absurd is sin without God. Votes: 0

I believe because it is absurd. Votes: 0

I like being absurd. Being silly. Votes: 0

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described. Votes: 0

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd. Votes: 0

It is absurd to ape our betters. Votes: 0

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd. Votes: 0

It is absurd to look for perfection. Votes: 0

The logic of the heart is absurd Votes: 0

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible. Votes: 0

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more. Votes: 0

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. Votes: 0

The concept of a value-free science is absurd. Votes: 0

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. Votes: 0

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. Votes: 0

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor. Votes: 0

It is to believed because it is absurd. Votes: 0

It's absurd to warme one in his armour. Votes: 0

The absurd man is he who never changes. Votes: 0

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd. Votes: 0

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd Votes: 0

No people find each other more absurd than lovers Votes: 0

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. Votes: 0

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. Votes: 0

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. Votes: 0

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump. Votes: 0

It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday Votes: 0

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd. Votes: 0

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things. Votes: 0

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. Votes: 0

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd. Votes: 0

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent. Votes: 0

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." Votes: 0

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. Votes: 0

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. Votes: 0

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. Votes: 0

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd. Votes: 0

Credo quia absurdum "“ I believe because it is absurd. Votes: 0

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine. Votes: 0

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd. Votes: 0

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral? Votes: 0

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work Votes: 0

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere. Votes: 0

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd... Votes: 0

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd. Votes: 0

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful? Votes: 0

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. Votes: 0

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't Votes: 0

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. Votes: 0

Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! Votes: 0

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations. Votes: 0

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. Votes: 0

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. Votes: 0

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. Votes: 0

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. Votes: 0

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Votes: 0

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. Votes: 0

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd. Votes: 0

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. Votes: 0

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. Votes: 0

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. Votes: 0

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. Votes: 0

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. Votes: 0

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. Votes: 0

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Votes: 0

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. Votes: 0

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. Votes: 0

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. Votes: 0

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. Votes: 0

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. Votes: 0

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. Votes: 0

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. Votes: 0

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. Votes: 0

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial. Votes: 0

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. Votes: 0

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. Votes: 0

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. Votes: 0

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children. Votes: 0

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first. Votes: 0

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Votes: 0

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. Votes: 0

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. Votes: 0

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be. Votes: 0

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. Votes: 0

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes. Votes: 0

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. Votes: 0

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. Votes: 0

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. Votes: 0

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. Votes: 0

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. Votes: 0

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. Votes: 0

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. Votes: 0

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd. Votes: 0

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something. Votes: 0

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. Votes: 0

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. Votes: 0

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. Votes: 0

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. Votes: 0

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. Votes: 0

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. Votes: 0

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. Votes: 0

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Votes: 0

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. Votes: 0

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause. Votes: 0

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. Votes: 0

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd. Votes: 0

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. Votes: 0

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid. Votes: 0

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd. Votes: 0

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. Votes: 0

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Votes: 0

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. Votes: 0

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Votes: 0

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law. Votes: 0

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't. Votes: 0

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. Votes: 0

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it. Votes: 0

I find it somewhat absurd to ask for mercy for something I did not do. Votes: 0

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. Votes: 0

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless? Votes: 0

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... Votes: 0

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. Votes: 0

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. Votes: 0

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. Votes: 0

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance. Votes: 0

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? Votes: 0

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. Votes: 0

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. Votes: 0

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. Votes: 0

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion Votes: 0

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. Votes: 0

Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. Votes: 0

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. Votes: 0

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me. Votes: 0

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers. Votes: 0

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. Votes: 0

Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric. Votes: 0

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? Votes: 0

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Votes: 0

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. Votes: 0

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. Votes: 0

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Votes: 0

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Votes: 0

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. Votes: 0

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd Votes: 0

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. Votes: 0

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd. Votes: 0

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. Votes: 0

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice. Votes: 0

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke. Votes: 0

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Votes: 0

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd. Votes: 0

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. Votes: 0

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. Votes: 0

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist. Votes: 0

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd. Votes: 0

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. Votes: 0

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Votes: 0

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it. Votes: 0

I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach. Votes: 0

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. Votes: 0

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. Votes: 0

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. Votes: 0

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. Votes: 0

It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun. Votes: 0

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. Votes: 0

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. Votes: 0

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that. Votes: 0

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. Votes: 0

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd. Votes: 0

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity. Votes: 0

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. Votes: 0

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. Votes: 0

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. Votes: 0

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics. Votes: 0

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. Votes: 0

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. Votes: 0

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is. Votes: 0

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes. Votes: 0

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes. Votes: 0

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! Votes: 0

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. Votes: 0

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. Votes: 0

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Votes: 0

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd. Votes: 0

I'm actually trying to make sense of the world. There's nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. Votes: 0

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. Votes: 0

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. Votes: 0

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd. Votes: 0

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. Votes: 0

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it. Votes: 0

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. Votes: 0

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. Votes: 0

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics. Votes: 0

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. Votes: 0

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. Votes: 0

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Votes: 0

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. Votes: 0

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? Votes: 0

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. Votes: 0

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Votes: 0

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. Votes: 0

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! Votes: 0

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words. Votes: 0

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television. Votes: 0

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data. Votes: 0

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. Votes: 0

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. Votes: 0

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. Votes: 0

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. Votes: 0

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change. Votes: 0

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous. Votes: 0

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there. Votes: 0

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical, Votes: 0

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared! Votes: 0

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. Votes: 0

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much. Votes: 0

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me. Votes: 0

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere. Votes: 0

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. Votes: 0

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change. Votes: 0

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. Votes: 0

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. Votes: 0

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life. Votes: 0

It's absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. Votes: 0

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. Votes: 0

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. Votes: 0

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims. Votes: 0

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. Votes: 0

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. Votes: 0

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. Votes: 0

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. Votes: 0

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. Votes: 0

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. Votes: 0

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Votes: 0

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. Votes: 0

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed. Votes: 0

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. Votes: 0

When a person's tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. Votes: 0

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot. Votes: 0

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd. Votes: 0

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. Votes: 0

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it. Votes: 0

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. Votes: 0

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. Votes: 0

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off Votes: 0

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. Votes: 0

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Votes: 0

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. Votes: 0

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. Votes: 0

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. Votes: 0

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Votes: 0

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order. Votes: 0

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. Votes: 0

Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. Votes: 0

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background. Votes: 0

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Votes: 0

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Votes: 0

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. Votes: 0

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. Votes: 0

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama. Votes: 0

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. Votes: 0

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd. Votes: 0

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. Votes: 0

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. Votes: 0

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason Votes: 0

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd. Votes: 0

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. Votes: 0

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd. Votes: 0

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. Votes: 0

Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void Votes: 0

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. Votes: 0

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? Votes: 0

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening. Votes: 0

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre. Votes: 0

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas. Votes: 0

I give 110% in love. If that seems absurd, just know that I used presidential voting machines to calculate that number. It's totally legit. Votes: 0

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home. Votes: 0

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference. Votes: 0

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. Votes: 0

To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity. Votes: 0

The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'. Votes: 0

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me. Votes: 0

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd. Votes: 0

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. Votes: 0

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. Votes: 0

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone. Votes: 0

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. Votes: 0

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. Votes: 0

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. Votes: 0

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. Votes: 0

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it. Votes: 0

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible. Votes: 0

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. Votes: 0

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it? Votes: 0

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. Votes: 0

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you. Votes: 0

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Votes: 0

My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming. Votes: 0

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. Votes: 0

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter. Votes: 0

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it. Votes: 0

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. Votes: 0

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. Votes: 0

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. Votes: 0

For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane Votes: 0

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! Votes: 0

It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence. Votes: 0

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way. Votes: 0

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama. Votes: 0

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines. Votes: 0

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Votes: 0

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. Votes: 0

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not. Votes: 0

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live. Votes: 0

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor. Votes: 0

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Votes: 0

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. Votes: 0

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd. Votes: 0

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene. Votes: 0

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature Votes: 0

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. Votes: 0

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. Votes: 0

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd! Votes: 0

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me. Votes: 0

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd. Votes: 0

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie. Votes: 0

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. Votes: 0

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd. Votes: 0

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. Votes: 0

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart. Votes: 0

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. Votes: 0

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists. Votes: 0

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing, Votes: 0

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff. Votes: 0

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning. Votes: 0

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists. Votes: 0

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd. Votes: 0

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. Votes: 0

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff. Votes: 0

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting. Votes: 0

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. Votes: 0

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. Votes: 0

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. Votes: 0

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time. Votes: 0

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning. Votes: 0

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds. Votes: 0

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Votes: 0

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Votes: 0

There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd. Votes: 0

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd. Votes: 0

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right. Votes: 0

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year. Votes: 0

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall. Votes: 0

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. Votes: 0

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now. Votes: 0

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. Votes: 0

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. Votes: 0

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't. Votes: 0

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. Votes: 0

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body. Votes: 0

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Votes: 0

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one. Votes: 0

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same. Votes: 0

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power. Votes: 0

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin! Votes: 0

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. Votes: 0

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. Votes: 0

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. Votes: 0

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. Votes: 0

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. Votes: 0

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. Votes: 0

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts. Votes: 0

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend "” and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. Votes: 0

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about Votes: 0

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life. Votes: 0

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception. Votes: 0

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this." Votes: 0

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature Votes: 0

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can. Votes: 0

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. Votes: 0

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. Votes: 0

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. Votes: 0

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. Votes: 0

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. Votes: 0

We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd. Votes: 0

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people. Votes: 0

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. Votes: 0

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life. Votes: 0

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd! Votes: 0

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers. Votes: 0

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief. Votes: 0

I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. Votes: 0

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person. Votes: 0

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy. Votes: 0

The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Votes: 0

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Votes: 0

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in. Votes: 0

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women. Votes: 0

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. Votes: 0

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. Votes: 0

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. Votes: 0

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.' Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. Votes: 0

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd. Votes: 0

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.' Votes: 0

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end. Votes: 0

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd. Votes: 0

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. Votes: 0

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas. Votes: 0

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. Votes: 0

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? Votes: 0

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate. Votes: 0

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it. Votes: 0

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that. Votes: 0

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years. Votes: 0

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac. Votes: 0

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible. Votes: 0

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac. Votes: 0

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. Votes: 0

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it. Votes: 0

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' Votes: 0

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. Votes: 0

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd. Votes: 0

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. Votes: 0

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Votes: 0

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. Votes: 0

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing. Votes: 0

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian. Votes: 0

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. Votes: 0

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too. Votes: 0