Absurd Quotes

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. (Cicero)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. View quote
Norman Mailer
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. View quote
Arthur Miller
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. View quote
Voltaire
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. View quote
Cicero
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. (Oscar Wilde)
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. View quote
Albert Camus
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. View quote
Albert Einstein
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. View quote
Alain Robbe-Grillet
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd. View quote
Irene Nemirovsky
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. View quote
John Updike
It is absurd to look for perfection. View quote
Camille Pissarro
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. (Virchand Gandhi)
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it. View quote
Robert Frost
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. View quote
Paul Valéry
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. View quote
Joseph Addison
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
Robert Browning