It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
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.
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.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Therefore when I considered this carefully the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
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.
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.
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.
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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.
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.