Utterly Absurd Quotes

#1. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciples
these disciples, such men as these!
to try and become the light of the world! No, they are already the light, and the call has made them so.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Irving Stone

#4. Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

#5. The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Stanley Tucci

#6. My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. If religion is the answer, the question must be utterly absurd.

Nyan Prater

#8. Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

Jami Gertz

#9. There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

Teresa Medeiros

#10. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.

Jonathan Douglas Duran

#11. The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are.

Ian Strang

#12. Celaena put a hand against her chest. How absurd - how utterly absurd and useless - that her heart still beat and Nehemia's didn't

Sarah J. Maas

#13. One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Charlotte Beers

#14. I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

Lemony Snicket

#15. The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

#16. I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

Cate Blanchett

#17. Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd

Oscar Wilde

#18. Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

John Eliot

#19. Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.

Katherine Mansfield