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Absurd Quotes
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. - William Odom Quotes
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. - Georges Duhamel Quotes
I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didnt really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long. - Graham Nash Quotes
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. - Willem De Kooning Quotes
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France Quotes
It begins and ends with money. Its absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. Its obscene. - Kathleen Turner Quotes
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. - Denis Diderot Quotes
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. - Joseph Addison Quotes
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? - Albert Claude Quotes
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. - John Henry Newman Quotes
It is as absurd to say that a man cant 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 Quotes
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. - Robin Morgan Quotes
It is absurd to look for perfection. - Camille Pissarro Quotes
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus Quotes
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 Quotes
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. - Charles De Secondat Quotes
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 Quotes
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. - Oswald Mosley Quotes
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. - John Steinbeck Quotes
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think its in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. - M C Escher Quotes
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. - Cicero Quotes
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. - Stanley Tucci Quotes
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac. - Javier Bardem Quotes
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 Quotes
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, Im sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you cant help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. - Sophie Marceau Quotes
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. - Christopher Morley Quotes
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. - Archibald Macleish Quotes
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 Quotes
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