Absurd Quotes

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's ...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interes...

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious co...

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teach...

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for ...

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bi...

We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until ...

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it...

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive w...

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either po...

It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of t...

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Applaud my idiocy.

When all else fails, there's always delusion.

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled...

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing...

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? B...

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable b...

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is ...