Absurdity Quotes

• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Champion

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• The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Happens

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.243, Macmillan

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• 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.

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Criminal Mind, Spirituality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, World, Dominion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Wisdom, Political, Generations

  Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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• Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Absurd, Fall Of Man

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

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• Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

  Julio Cortazar

  Break Out, Infinite, Break

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.14, Everyman's Library

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• Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Tired, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Feelings, Faces

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Son, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.122, Vintage

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• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.

  David Hume

  Religious, Strong, Miracle

  David Hume (1861). “An Essay on Miracles. No. 10 of the “Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding.””, p.10

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• No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

  Bernard Levin

  Believe, Manifest, Wanted

  Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”

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• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Belief, Opinion, Inconsistent

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Self, Dies

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• 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.

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• This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

  Albert Camus

  Divorce, Men, Absurdity Of Life

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

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Men, Looks

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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

  Matt Millen

  Player, Years, Nfl

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• I used my pants to illustrate.

  Mike Singletary

  Pants, Used

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life.

  David Lynch

  Absurdity Of Life, Bloody, Pulp

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

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