Absurd Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

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.

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

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.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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 didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

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.

It begins and ends with money. It's 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. It's obscene.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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.

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

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.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.