Absurdity Quotes - Page 2

• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

  Martin Short

  Mother, Symphony, Masters

  9 Copy quote

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

  Orson Pratt

  Good Christian, Christianity, Modern

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.13, Latter-day Strength

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  William Osler

  Birthday, Truth, Philosophy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

  David Lynch

  Running, Wall, Struggle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

  Albert Camus

  Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

  Neil LaBute

  Church, Doe, Mormonism

  10 Copy quote

• When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Enough

  T. Colin Campbell (2014). “The Low-Carb Fraud”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Wire, Rhyming, Poet

  "At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

  David Lynch

  Ironic, Trying, Too Much

  "Inland Empire: the blogosphere's verdict" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.

  Al Davis

  Winning, Fields, Looks

  27 Copy quote

• We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

  Daryl Gates

  People, Veins, May

  8 Copy quote

• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used my pants to illustrate.

  Mike Singletary

  Pants, Used

  11 Copy quote

• Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

  Matt Millen

  Player, Years, Nfl

  7 Copy quote

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

  Francis Atterbury

  Flow, Falsity, Supposition

  Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life, Needs, Strange

  45 Copy quote

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Ego, Doe

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.162, University of Chicago Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Religious, Fall

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Loathing, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Fear, Home

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Faith, Faces, Reason

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Subjects

  7 Copy quote

• Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Self, Dies

  10 Copy quote