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It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX
— W. Somerset Maugham
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
— David Lynch
Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.
— Ron Brackin
The absurdity of it all.
— Lauren DeStefano
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
— Ralph Ellison
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
— Anthony Daniels
Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.
— Thomas Keneally
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
— Orson Pratt
Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.
— Joseph Conrad
Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.
— Francis M. Nevins Jr.
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.
— Frederick Lenz
Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.
— Ludwig Von Mises
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Against a broken heart, even absurdity falters.Because words fall away.
A dialogue of silence.
That deafens. — Steven Erikson
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
— Martin Short
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
— William Batchelder Greene
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I used my pants to illustrate.
— Mike Singletary
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
— Baruch Spinoza
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?
— Mary E. Pearson
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
— David Cronenberg
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
— Robert Breault
If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.
— Mikhail Bakunin
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
— Hayden Carruth
Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable
— David Vann
I can't go on, I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Do I express my thoughts lucidly?I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Absurdity, only you are pure.
— Cesar Vallejo
I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.
— Tom Robbins
But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
— Leila Sales
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
To me absurdity is the only reality
— Frank Zappa
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true ...
— John Geddes
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
— George Orwell
Do not sanction an absurdity.
— Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis
I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdity
in the miracle of the verb to be.
Lucky you, lucky me. — Miller Williams
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
— Jonathan Edwards
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
— Chandrashekar
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.
— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
— Christopher McCandless
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity! MMI
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.
— Charles Simic
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
— Dean Cavanagh
There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.
— Baltasar Gracian
One is always willfully absurd ... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
— Galen Beckett
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
— Stephen King
The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
— Maria Mitchell
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
— Bertrand Russell
You may not be interested in absurdity," she said firmly, "but absurdity is interested in you.
— Donald Barthelme
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
— Sherwood Anderson
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
— George Sand
Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world.
— Robert Zaretsky
Marriage needed the absurdity of values.
— Manu Joseph
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
— Tristan Tzara
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
— Natalie Standiford
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
— Phil Ochs
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
