Absurdity Quotations

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

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

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

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.

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.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human.

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

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

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

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

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

as an absurdity and an obvious effort to divert attention from the atrocities and other outrageous activities being perpetrated by the regime in Kosovo.

They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.

It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also triggers an emotional response. It's that kind of chaos and absurdity that results in an opening-up to a discovery of deeper emotion.

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

If there isn't an element of absurdity in a session, you haven't stretched your client enough.

I just love the absurdity of doing something like this.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

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

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

To me absurdity is the only reality

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

I used my pants to illustrate.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

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

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

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

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

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

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

The absurd is sin without God.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

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

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

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

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

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

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.