Absurdity Quotes
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
Chamfort
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There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Isn`t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...
Vaclav Havel
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce -- my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions -- the absurdity of the thing.
Billy Connolly
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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.
David Lynch
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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Junius
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
Aimee Litka
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To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
Andrew Norwood
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There`s so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt
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The team`s decision to put on slicks at the first stop was a colossal absurdity,
Jarno Trulli
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The concept of absurdity is something I`m attracted to.
David Lynch
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The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they`r...
Angie Lassman
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Ahmed Bedier
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Alan Sandals
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Alan Sandals
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Alan LeBreton
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short
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If you`re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can`t be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack
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I just love the absurdity of doing something like this.
Antonio Martinez
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Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Aimee Litka
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Even though you can`t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That`s morality, that`s religion. That`s art. That`s life.
Phil Ochs
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That`s what`s funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.
Sophie Marceau
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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.
David Lynch
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Adam Deadmarsh
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one`s own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce
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In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
Adam Wainwright
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In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Adam Wainwright
