Absurdity Quotes - page 2

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. (Jeanette Winterson)
And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others. View quote
Ralph Ellison
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. View quote
George Orwell
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful. View quote
Albert Camus
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Without the constantly living and articulated experience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning? View quote
Václav Havel
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity). View quote
Samuel Beckett
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. View quote
Phil Ochs
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. (Rumi)
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself. View quote
Stendhal
Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. View quote
Winston Churchill
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. View quote
Charles Cooley
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life. View quote
Jenny Lawson
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. (John Cusack)
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. View quote
Neil LaBute
I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air – trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity. View quote
Franz Marc
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. View quote
Charlie Pierce
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. View quote
Chester Himes