Quotes of: Absurd Keyword

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

Albert Camus

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

Anthony Hope

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.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Education, Free & Compulsory

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

A Familiar Rain

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

The Great Divorce

A brick could be tied to a cape, and then exalted as a superhero. Is that any more absurd than Superman? 

Blanket

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Phil Ochs

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

1984

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

The Problems of Philosophy

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Annie Besant

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

Michael Hastings

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

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.

Bono

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

Thomas Mellon

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.

Clarence Darrow

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

Georges Duhamel

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Atterbury