Absurd 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?

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

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.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

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.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.