Absurdity Quotes - page 4

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. View quote
Natasha Lyonne
God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. View quote
Orson Pratt
It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Magic has been confounded too long with the jugglery of mountebanks, the hallucinations of disordered minds and the crimes of certain unusual malefactors. There are otherwise many who would promptly explain Magic as the art of producing effects in the absence of causes; and on the strength of such a definition it will be said by ordinary people - with the good sense which characterises the ordinary, in the midst of much injustice - that Magic is an absurdity. (Introduction) View quote
Eliphas Levi
Are we, in blind obedience to primitive instincts and old prejudices, enslaved by the old catchwords and that curious indolence which makes the revision of old ideas unpleasant, to duplicate indefinitely on the political and economic side a condition from which we have liberated ourselves on the religious side? Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom - spilling oceans of blood, wasting mountains of treasure - to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity, to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed and the constant defeat of all those aims which men, in their sober hours, know to be alone worthy of sustained endeavor? View quote
Norman Angell
The easiest and most popular way of practically refuting... any Fallacy is, by bringing forward a parallel case, where it leads to a manifest absurdity. A metaphysical objection may still be urged against many cases in which we thus reason from calculation of chances; an objection not likely indeed practically to influence any one, but which may afford the Sophist a triumph over those who are unable to find a solution. View quote
Richard Whately
As it turns out, Mailer comes close to solving the mystery [of Lee Harvey Oswald], but he never establishes the tragedy. Dreiser's tale was tragic and American because it happened every day. Oswald made only one notch in the calendar. It was meaningless; he just renamed an airport, violently. ...Oswald's life was not a cry of pain so much as a squawk for attention. He achieved geopolitical significance by the shortest possible route. He was not an example of post-modern absurdity but one of its messiahs: an inspiration to the glazed loner. He killed Kennedy not to impress Jodie Foster. He killed Kennedy to impress Clio - the muse of history. (Martin Amis)
Albert Gleizes did not know Montmartre, had never seen anything of Picasso or Juan Gris, never heard Maurice Princet construct an infinite number of different spaces for the use of painters, but he described to me the absurdity of the museums in which mournful, extravagantly three dimensional crowds threaten to crush the visitor by jumping out of their frames. View quote
Jean Metzinger
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I tried to answer but she interrupted and went off in a Barrymore manner, speaking deeply and tragically; murmuring of the pity of it all, the stupidity of it all, the absurdity of a hopelessly bad writer like myself buried in a cheap hotel in Los Angeles, California, of all places, writing banal things the world would never read and never get a chance to forget. View quote
John Fante
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. View quote
Martin Short
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. - This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. View quote
Patrick Warburton
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. View quote
Albert Camus
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. (D. H. Lawrence)
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. View quote
Thomas Nagel
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. View quote
Jane Austen
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause. View quote
David Hume
His character does not appear more extraordinary and unusual by the mixture of so much absurdity with so much penetration, than by his tempering such violent ambition, and such enraged fanaticism with so much regard to justice and humanity. View quote
David Hume