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— W. Somerset Maugham
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— Colleen Hoover
To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic.
— Marty Rubin
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
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson
The absurdity of it all.
— Lauren DeStefano
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
Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.
— Steven Erikson
Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.
— Francis M. Nevins Jr.
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
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
— Larry Bird
The absurd is sin without God.
— Albert Camus
If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.
— Marty Rubin
Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.
— Isaac Marion
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
— George Tyrrell
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
— John Locke
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
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.
— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
— Robert Breault
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
— Chandrashekar
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
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends
— Dean Cavanagh
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
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[ ... ] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination.
— Paul Broks
Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.
— Charles Simic
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
— Benjamin Franklin
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
— Diane Keaton
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
— Albert Einstein
the absurdity of a smoking skyscraper.
— Hugh Howey
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
— Criss Jami
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
— Sherwood Anderson
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
— Leila Sales
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel
The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
— Maria Mitchell
I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.
— Tom Robbins
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
— Bertrand Russell
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
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
— Natasha Lyonne
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
— George Orwell
The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true ...
— John Geddes
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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
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
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
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
— William Batchelder Greene
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.
— Frederick Lenz
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
— Martin Short
Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.
— Ludwig Von Mises
To me absurdity is the only reality
— Frank Zappa