Absurdest Quotes

#1. Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,
indeed, to exist at all,
must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,
an acknowledged cheat.

Edmund Burke

#2. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. [Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#5. When the moon sails out
with a hundred faces all the same,
the coins made of silver
break out in sobs in the pocket.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#6. Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Richard Roeper

#7. In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

Rachel Weisz

#8. True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

#9. For once in my life, I'd love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me.

Katie McGarry