Quotes About Absurd

Suffering, as absurd as it seemed, pointed to a greater story in which, if one would only construe himself as a character within, he could find fulfillment in his tragic role, knowing the plot was heading toward redemption.

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. —ALBERT CAMUS

But I had only known the absurd, and I think that made me profoundly different from them

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

The idea that the United States is a nation of chumps that has spent the past fifty years getting ripped off by wily foreigners is absurd. The

It seemed absurd even to think of it, foolish and improbable as a dream is by dinner.

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The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Saying 'Wow, You're cool.' when you see someone doing something stupid.

It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.

Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most absurd fashion; altogether he looked, so utterly had he abandoned himself to it, ignoring all other considerations, as though he were the lifeless and wire-pulled puppet of his own happiness.

I do find it absurd that a man of his intelligence should suffer over a person of that sort, who isn't even interesting--because they say she's an idiot," she added with the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who is worth it; which is rather like being surprised that anyone should condescend to suffer from cholera because of so small a creature as the comma bacillus.

Shrake asked. "I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.

He's not interested in Letty," Weather had declared. "Okay," Lucas said. "How about in you?" "Don't be absurd," she'd said, ostentatiously checking her hair in the mirror.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

I stepped out of the elevator, put the briefcase in a stray dog's mouth and told him to stay, then thought better of it and put the briefcase back in the elevator.

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.