462 Quotes About Absurd
- Author Leo Tolstoy
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.
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- Author Tertullian
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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- Author William M. Thackeray
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She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.
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- Author Craig Venter
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When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
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- Author Voltaire
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
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- Author Edmund White
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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- Author Harland Williams
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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- Author Jamie Wyeth
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Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
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- Author John Walters
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They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.
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