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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. -- Luc de Clapiers
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. -- Bertrand Russell
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. -- M. C. Escher
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. -- Anne Frank
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. -- Benjamin Zander
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was. -- Michael Helm
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. -- Denis Diderot
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -- Albert Camus
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. -- Robin Morgan
Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit -- Len Hutton
Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders. -- Albert Camus
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. -- Daniel Berrigan
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. -- Albert Camus
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method. -- Thomas Hobbes
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. -- Carl Jung
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. -- Danny DeVito
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare -- Martin Esslin
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. -- Edgar Allan Poe
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. -- Aldous Huxley
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. -- David Byrne
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. -- Clarence Darrow
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. -- Lord Byron
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. -- Robert Wyatt
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. -- Norman Mailer
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. -- Thomas Mann
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. -- Honore de Balzac
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. -- William James
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. -- J. K. Rowling
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. -- Barbara Pym
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. -- Michael Leunig
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. -- Arthur Miller
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. -- Franklin Pierce
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. -- Eli Broad
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower. -- Nancy Sinatra
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them. -- Louis Jourdan
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. -- Pope John Paul II
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
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. -- David Lynch
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters. -- David Simon
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. -- Robin Williams
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct. -- Emile Durkheim
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything is absurd. -- Fernando Pessoa
Life is fragile and absurd. -- Leo Tolstoy
The absurd is sin without God. -- Albert Camus
I believe because it is absurd. -- Tertullian
I like being absurd. Being silly. -- Jimmy Fallon
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described. -- Dan Simmons
Our plans are small and somewhat absurd. -- Barbara Kingsolver
It is absurd to ape our betters. -- Aesop
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd. -- Robert Browning
It is absurd to look for perfection. -- Camille Pissarro
The logic of the heart is absurd -- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible. -- Mason Cooley
pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more. -- Charles Bukowski
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. -- Albert Camus
The concept of a value-free science is absurd. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. -- Frank McCourt
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. -- Thomas Nagel
In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor. -- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
It is to believed because it is absurd. -- Tertullian
It's absurd to warme one in his armour. -- George Herbert
The absurd man is he who never changes. -- Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd. -- Peter Mullan
To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd -- Jon R. Michaelsen
No people find each other more absurd than lovers -- C. S. Lewis
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. -- Eugene Ionesco
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. -- Benito Mussolini
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. -- May Sarton
No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump. -- Sarah Sutherland
The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd. -- Mal Fletcher
Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things. -- Kevin Costner
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. -- Cy Twombly
Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent. -- Mary Collyer
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." -- H. L. Mencken
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. -- Victor Hugo
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work. -- Frederick Herzberg
The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd. -- Mason Cooley
Credo quia absurdum "? I believe because it is absurd. -- Robert Ludlum
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine. -- Benjamin Franklin
Take one step to the side and it's all absurd. -- Leonard Cohen
What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral? -- Frida Kahlo
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work -- Charles Bukowski
I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere. -- Reggie Watts
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd... -- Irene Nemirovsky
The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd. -- Nick Hanauer
If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful? -- Harry Mulisch
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. -- Moby
A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't -- Clive James
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. -- Benjamin Franklin
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! -- Robert Browning
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations. -- Brandon Lee
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. -- Jennifer Beals
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. -- L. Frank Baum
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason. -- Claire Forlani
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. -- Bruce Cockburn
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. -- Lawrence Durrell
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd. -- Brad Bird
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. -- Jamie Wyeth
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. -- Harvey Pekar

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