Quotes About Absurd

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

I couldn't imagine 'True Grit' in 3D. I think the idea is sort of absurd.

Then he thought himself absurd, got into bed again and blew out the candle. The eyes reappeared.

Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.

That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Life is an endless journey through stupidity.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

Figuring out what made 'American Psycho' tick, it was such a fun script to work on, especially when we got an audience. Everything about it was so dark and yet ABSURD. I played Evelyn, and balancing what made her real and ridiculous was incredibly rewarding.

The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified.

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

You doan go diggin' for gold in an outhouse.

Naelin resisted rolling her eyes. This was absurd. She was consorting with born-from-the-womb heroes. She wasn't worthy if this.

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

I eat stickers all the time dude!

It's in this valour, human, absurd, that I see true grace.

It's in this valor, human, absurd, that I see true grace.

No era la vida algo absurdo, una representación dramática que de súbito se volvía farsa?

But in the end he was so tired and hungry that, rather than walk to Utah, he decided to take his chances in a moss-and-puffball suit on a shock pancake thrown into the air by a giant catapult. Besides, the thing was insanely alluring.

So even Cicero imagined moveable type, but only in his polemic as an absurd idea. He used the phrase formae literarum, and when moveable type was finally made some sixteen centuries later, that is the name they gave it—though it was not such an absurd idea after all.