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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
— Francis Atterbury
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.
— Adolf Hitler
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
— Samuel Pepys
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
— Benjamin Franklin
How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
— Albert Camus
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
— Grant Morrison
What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
— Oscar Wilde
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
— Nancy Willard
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
— Bob Geldof
I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.
— Hayden Panettiere
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
— Laurence Sterne
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.
— Lynn Austin
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
— Luc De Clapiers
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
— Steven Wright
God should worshiped, not avenged. It is absurd for insects like ourselves to think we can avenge God.
— Voltaire
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
— Daniel Berrigan
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
— Nathan Fielder
People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!
— Raheel Farooq
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
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
— Voltaire
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
— John Malkovich
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
— Thomas Nagel
— Thomas Nagel
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
— Asger Jorn
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
— Daniel Tosh
The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.
— Stifyn Emrys
Most things are both true and absurd.
— Derek B. Miller
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
[In a letter to Frederick the Great] — Voltaire
[In a letter to Frederick the Great] — Voltaire
If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?
— John Most
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
— P.T. Barnum
It's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.
— Orson Scott Card
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
— Denis Diderot
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.
— Hermann Hesse
Ours [religion] is without a doubt the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and the most bloody to ever infect the world.
— Voltaire
To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools upon her was impious and absurd.
— Virginia Woolf
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
— Frederick Lenz
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
— Spike Milligan
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
— Kal Penn
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
— Thomas A. Edison
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.
— Frank Lautenberg
It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside down.
— Lauren Oliver
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
— Steven Wright
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
— Slobodan Milosevic
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.
— George Berkeley
[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.
— Eric Andre
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
— Claire Forlani
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
— Paulo Coelho
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
— Thomas Nagel
There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
— Elena Ferrante
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
If Mickey Mouse could fly, he'd be Donald Duck.
— Janet Evanovich
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
— T. Colin Campbell
The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
— Albert Camus
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.
— Steven Van Zandt