"The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is."
Absurd quotes
Absurd
184 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Absurd
Browse quotes that often appear alongside absurd — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Absurd quotes (page 3 of 10)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre."
"Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies."
"Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people."
"Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric."
"People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains."
"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to."
"Our plans are small and somewhat absurd."
"To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it."
"There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine."
"It is absurd to ape our betters."
"I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd."
"The absurd is sin without God."
"Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be."
"I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere."
"And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone."
"What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd.""
"In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing."
"'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd."
"What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."