Quotes About Absurd

While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the distanced between Marx's predicted communist society and the form taken by 'communism' in the twentieth century may in the end be traceable to Marx's misconception of the flexibility of human nature.

We are absurd," Mr. Tagomi said, "because we live by a five-thousand-year-old book. We set it questions as if it were alive. It is alive. As is the Christian Bible; many books are actually alive. Not in metaphoric fashion. Spirit animates it. Do you see?" He inspected Mr. Baynes' face for his reaction.

Well, once again we are invaded. And, humiliatingly, by a lifeform which is absurd. My colleague Tim Powers once said that Martians could invade us simply by putting on funny hats, and we'd never notice. It's a sort of low-budget invasion. I guess we're at the point where we can be amused by the idea of Earth being invaded. (And this is when they really zap you.

I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

How could he have gone around dopily believing he was making her happy when there was no justification for his feelings, when they were absurd, when, year in, year out, she was seething with hatred for their house?

Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the manias of lust.

Embedded in Trumpism is the distinction between "people" and "the people." Not all people belong to "the people." More and more people emphatically do not belong—which is why Trump's absurd claims about illegal voting resonated so powerfully.

Something in the early summer of 2019 had us all thinking about enormous gaping assholes.

It is the most ridiculous country in the world, Bangladesh. It is God's idea of a really good wheeze, his stab at black comedy.

Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in art- that we become more open to them.

there's a terrible silence before a predator's night sometimes an absurd airplane appears in the sky it throws out leaflets calling for surrender I would be happy to surrender but I've no one to surrender to

Men, she said rueful, are the most absurd creatures on this green earth. But there are camels, Gabriel pointed out. Believe me, she answered. I've taken camels into consideration.

Men," she said, rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered, "I've taken camels into consideration.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Hay cosas absurdas que tienen toda la apariencia de un legítimo razonamiento:

What's red and green and goes 80 miles an hour? A frog in a blender.

Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!

Sin pies ni cabeza.

National pride may be an absurd feeling, yet a rooster's pride as he struts about in his own yard amid the hens is biologically useful. (The Captive Mind)

The door's locked," Dorcas told him. "Oh dear!" she lamented. "Oh dear, oh dear—I thought she'd got over it. We were all so happy and peaceful—" "Don't be absurd, Dorcas," said Mr. Abbott, quite sharply. It really was absurd—anybody would think that Barbara had taken to drink, at least, by the way Dorcas was going on.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.