Absurd Quotes - page 24

I hate being refered to as a comedian. Being a homosexual and a comedian is like being a pig and P.R. of the slaughterhouse: absurd. I'd rather consider myself a satirist. Acording to Thesaurus: a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm... but i also puke a lot in the face of frustration; so then again i must be a supermodel. (Miss Shangay Lily)
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. View quote
Shakira
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty. View quote
James A. Garfield
Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. View quote
Albert Camus
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives. View quote
Albert Camus
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing. View quote
Albert Camus
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. View quote
Albert Camus
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. View quote
Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. View quote
Albert Camus
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. View quote
Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. (Albert Camus)
The absurd is sin without God. View quote
Albert Camus
I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. View quote
Albert Camus
You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. View quote
Albert Camus
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. View quote
Albert Camus
It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness. View quote
Albert Camus
The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives. View quote
Albert Camus
We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd. View quote
Howard Stern
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. View quote
Jarvis Cocker
The doctrines added by certain churches, such as that God took upon himself human nature, I have expressly said that I do not understand; in fact, to speak the truth, they seem to me no less absurd than would a statement, that a circle had taken upon itself the nature of a square. (Baruch Spinoza)
This idea of suddenly, one day or maybe a night, rounding up 11 million people and taking them outside of this country is a vulgar, absurd idea that I would hope very few people in America support. View quote
Bernie Sanders
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. View quote
Arlen Specter
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. View quote
Jane Austen
Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal. View quote
Francis Bacon