best quotations about
Absurdity |
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Quotations
 | Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 51 likes |
 | It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause. — David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish philosopher 13 likes |
 | There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 9 likes |
 | Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 8 likes |
 | Death is there as irrefutable proof of the absurdity of life. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 8 likes |
 | To me, absurdity is the only reality. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 6 likes |
 | The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 5 likes |
 | In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | Profound thinkers are only the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
| It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
 | Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 3 likes |
 | Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
 | Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
| This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | There may be Herostratoi who set fire to the temples in which their image is worshiped. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
| The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. |
 | There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously. |
 | It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. |
 | It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. |
 | The most ridiculous thing for a woman is to be a man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Le surréalisme, c'est moi. |
 | Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. |
 | Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. |
 | Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
| The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
Latin Quotes
 | I believe because it is absurd. Credo quia absurdum. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 51 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 9 likes |
 | America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Old woman dancing. Γραυς χορεύει. 7 likes |
