Top Absurdity Quotes

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 solemnit...

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 fig...

Absurdity Definition

(n.) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

(n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

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 admit...

HAMM:Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!CLOV (violently):That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any...

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

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

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 length ra...

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all. From this persp...

Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

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.

Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.

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...

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 really are: we are absurd, frivol...

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