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Absurdity  Quotes
anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

—Christopher Hitchens

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I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will...

—Frederick the

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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary...

—Thomas Paine

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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...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to...

—James Joyce

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If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world...

—Thomas Nagel

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I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

—Clive Barker

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They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.(“Introduction”)

—Francis M.

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I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

—Samuel Beckett

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He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If...

—Aldous Huxley

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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: ‘If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are...

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

—Georg Christoph

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To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and...

—Mark Twain

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Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

—Francis M.

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HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn’t know.HAMM:What? What didn’t you know?NAGG:That it’d be you.(Pause.)

—Samuel Beckett

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But if one doesn’t really exist, one wonders why…” she hesitated.”Why one makes such a fuss about things,” Anthony suggested. “All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self...

—Aldous Huxley

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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

—Karl Lagerfeld

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His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.

—Gerhard Roth

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Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. “I fry mine in butter!” indeed.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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

—Albert Camus

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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

—George Orwell

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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own...

—Theodore Kaczynski

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It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect of living itself seem all the more absurd; to extend this...

—Ashim Shanker

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We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

—Julio Cortázar

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We all know that any emotional bias — irrespective of truth or falsity — can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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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

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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above...

—Aberjhani

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In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit.Your entire family...

—David Walliams

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…it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of...

—Thomas Jefferson

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People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

—Bryant McGill

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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility “faith”!(Institutio III.2.3)

—John Calvin

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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

—Criss Jami

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A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag’d to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their...

—John Adams

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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitationto death—and I refuse...

—Albert Camus

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My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo,...

—Robert G.

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The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

—Benjamin Franklin

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[Mom] said she didn’t want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. “Isn’t that a sin?” I asked Mom. “Not...

—Jeannette Walls

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I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

—Criss Jami

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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity

—John Adams

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Le suicide est une solution à l’absurde.

—Albert Camus

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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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If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did...

—Robert G.

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.

—Aditya Ajmera

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To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic.

—Marty Rubin

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If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

—Criss Jami

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Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an...

—Joseph Conrad

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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

—André Breton

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