Quotes about absurd
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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. Antonin Scalia
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
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Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd Bertrand Russell
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
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Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. Lionel Trilling
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue. Adam McKay
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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon
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Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. Craig Venter
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I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Miguel Syjuco
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We've been telling people for months now to stay away from the primary and save yourself for Kinky. We realize it's absurd to tell people in Texas not to vote, but the two-party system has left us with no choice.
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What is utterly absurd happens in the world Nikolai Gogol
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When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is. Drew Goddard
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. Albert Camus
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. Nicolas Chamfort
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place. Kurt Braunohler
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People will be freed from the absurd requirement that we communicate with software by typing and using a mouse. We don't communicate with one another this way, so why should we do so with software?
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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. Laurence Sterne
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section. Edmund White
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Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!
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Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the strange coldness of this world, finally choosing the complete peace of the Nirvana it was looking throughout its historical evolution, a strange and absurd Nirvana itself in reference to the increasingly humble and insignificant being compared to it, to the stranger that replaces more often self and more inhumanly, that mocks her creating it a society increasingly petty and absurd. Is suicide the saving solution of the mankind? Is it not any other way through which man would chase away the alien within him, the absurd and the anxiety so that he can find his Sacred Self that was stolen so many millennia ago? What other way could there be except suicide?
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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
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BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
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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. Eric Liu
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Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
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If it weren't for that absurd and ridiculous embargo, the United States could receive vaccinations and other medical procedures from Cuba that could help save American lives. Fidel Castro
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I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human. Peter Sarsgaard
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One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd Niels Bohr
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Since last Friday, we've known that Chirac will not run for another mandate. It seemed absurd that he should do so anyway, but now the age factor has been multiplied by the health factor, and that makes it totally impossible, and that's why the fight has erupted between his successors.
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She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.
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Everything is absurd. Fernando Pessoa