Absurdity Quotes

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

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

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

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

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

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

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Annihilation is an absurdity in terms.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

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

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.

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.

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.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

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

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.