Top Absurd Quotes

  • It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

    It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.– Oscar Wilde

  • What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. – Joseph Addison

    What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.– Joseph Addison

  • The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent. – Stifyn Emrys

    The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.– Stifyn Emrys

  • A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician. – Thomas Paine

    A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.– Thomas Paine

  • She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature – Paulo Coelho

    She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature– Paulo Coelho

  • If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common? – John Most

    If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?– John Most

  • There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. – Julian Barnes

    There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.– Julian Barnes

  • Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work – Charles Bukowski

    Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work– Charles Bukowski

  • I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. – Sadegh Hedayat

    I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.– Sadegh Hedayat

  • Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas. – Simon Zingerman

    Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.– Simon Zingerman