Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Votes: 5
Ambrose BierceThe privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Votes: 4
Thomas HobbesPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Votes: 4
Agnes RepplierAlmost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Votes: 4
Samuel JohnsonNo amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. Votes: 3
Bernard LevinMy mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. Votes: 3
Martin ShortThe irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheOnly by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. Votes: 1
Julio CortazarI always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. Votes: 1
Natasha LyonneI laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. Votes: 1
T. J. MillerA prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. Votes: 1
Oswald MosleyOld Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. Votes: 0
Wislawa SzymborskaTime is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. Votes: 0
Jonathan NolanThe only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. Votes: 0
Raoul PeckThe utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke Votes: 0
Barbara W. TuchmanSome stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderThe words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. Votes: 0
George OrwellReason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. Votes: 0
Samuel Johnson[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity Votes: 0
Carl von ClausewitzTo prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotEven though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. Votes: 0
Phil OchsAny manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanThere is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Votes: 0
Will DurantWhat an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieThe best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneSuch squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. Votes: 0
Jane AustenTo brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. Votes: 0
John Philpot CurranAnd I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. Votes: 0
Ralph EllisonOnce an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultA book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithHe had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. Votes: 0
Dorothy L. Sayers