(101 quotes found)
“No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.”
Bernard Levin
“The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.”
David Lynch
“The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!”
David Kirk
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”
Albert Einstein
“There is an absurdity in it, particularly in the relationship between the siblings.”
John Madden
“A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true”
Catherine Crowe
“I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
Voltaire
“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it”
Oliver Goldsmith
“We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.”
Clark M. Clifford
