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Quotes About Absurd

There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.
~ Stephanie Bond
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
~ Iris Murdoch
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
~ David Edward Kirk
It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.
~ Samael Aun Weor
It was like using a rake to whip egg whites, a dagger to pick your teeth. It could be done, but to do so was a perversion. Furthermore, ineffective.
~ Michael Chabon
had going on it.' Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd.
~ Michael Connelly
It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.
~ Michael Crichton
The guy walks around with a banana in his ear. And people are like, 'Why do you have a banana in your ear?' He says, 'To keep the alligators away! There are no alligators! See?
~ Michael Lewis
A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid
~ Michael Lewis
I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently sinful and carries sin and needs to be cleaned in order for it to be all right and all good with its creator, I just think that's an absurd notion.
~ Hozier
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
~ Harold Pinter
If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
~ Karl Pilkington
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
~ George Pierce Baker
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
No other show was as absurd as 'Crackerjack'. It had Stu Francis, who was the first person I saw on TV telling jokes for kids, and then there were the Krankies, who were a comedy duo with a middle-aged woman dressed as a schoolboy doing sketches.
~ Paul Sinha
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
~ Beck
Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.
~ Zach Braff
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.
~ Judith McNaught
Did all that really just happen or have I wandered into some kind of Dada exhibition?
~ Bill Bryson
I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
~ Bill Watterson
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
~ Blaise Pascal
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.
~ Blaise Pascal
Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word "NOW" And you say, "For what reason?" And he says, "How?" And you say, "What does this mean?" And he screams back, "You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home
~ Bob Dylan
Una cosa inutile come la sofferenza non può dare diritti a nessuno su niente.
~ Boris Vian