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Absurd Quotes (page 4)

For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had ' Visca P.O.U.M.!' scrawled on them as large as I could write it. All the while, though I was technically in hiding, I could not feel myself in danger. The whole thing seemed too absurd. I had the ineradicable English belief that they cannot arrest you unless you have committed a crime. It is a most dangerous belief to have during a political pogrom. George Orwell
Fernando Pessoa quote: "The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic..."
The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs. Fernando Pessoa
Tom Robbins quote: "I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning."
I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. Tom Robbins
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be..."
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Oliver Goldsmith
George Santayana quote: "why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory?..."
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. George Santayana
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Thomas Paine
Albert Camus quote: "The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability..."
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. Albert Camus
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against itand the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace Charles Bukowski
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it. David Eddings
They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record. Lester Bangs
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention. Chris Hedges
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde
Voltaire quote: "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an..."
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
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
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley

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