Quotes On absurd

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Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

-Kathleen Turner

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I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

-Danny DeVito

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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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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

-Willem de Kooning

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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

-Arthur Holly Compton

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

-Thomas Mann

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That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

-Pope John Paul II

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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

-Annie Besant

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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

-Jeff Tweedy

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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

-Clarence Darrow

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There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

-Lawrence Wright

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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

-Jonathan Sacks

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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

-Wendell Berry

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

-Soren Kierkegaard

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

-Gilbert K.Chesterton

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

-Voltaire

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

-Oscar Wilde

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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

-Anne Frank

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The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

-David Mamet

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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

-David Mamet

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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

-Bono

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

-Paul Valery

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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

-David Lynch

Absurd In Urdu

اوجھا ojha اوٹ پٹانگ uut pataang بعید القیاس uut pataang بیہودہ Behooda بے سر و پا bey sar o pa بے معنی bey mani بے ہودہ bey huudah غیر معقول ghaer maquul لایعنی laa yani لغو laghw مہمل mohmal نامعقول naa maquul واہی تباہی waahi tabaahi واہیات waahiyaat

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  • Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene. — Kathleen Turner
  • I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. — Danny DeVito

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