Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.
One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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.
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.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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.
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.
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