Top Absurd Quotes
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
Simon Greenleaf
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Tom Courtenay
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Laurence Sterne 
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge 
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The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
John Doolittle 
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Thom Mayne 
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman 
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
Evelyn Waugh 
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel De Cervantes 
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When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.
Mark E. Hyman 
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My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
Jennifer Beals 
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
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