Absurd Quotes - Page 9

• Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Numbers, Giving, Negative

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• Depresión: la sana sospecha de que la vida moderna no tiene sentido y de que la sociedad moderna es absurda y alienante.

  Neel Burton

  Healthy, Modern Life, Suspicion

  Neel Burton (2017). "Crecer desde la depresión, segunda edición", p.61, Acheron Press.

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Children, Support, Earning

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• Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

  Peter Mullan

  Fiction, Life Is

  "‘NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

  Peter Mullan

  Kids, World

  "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• Cada golfista profesional tiene un entrenador distinto para sus drives, sus aproximaciones y sus putts. En el fútbol tenemos un entrenador para 15 jugadores. Esto es absurdo.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• No hay nada tan absurdo como el conocimiento hilado demasiado fino.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Fine, Spun

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• It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

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• El Evangelio de un Dios que se encuentra en la carne rota, la humildad y la caridad sin medida ha derrotado a todas las viejas mentiras, ha hecho que el antiguo orden sea visiblemente insuficiente e incluso ligeramente absurdo, y ha infundido en nosotros un anhelo de amor trascendente tan profundo que -si una vez cedemos a él- nunca nos concederá descanso en otro lugar que no sea Cristo.

  David Bentley Hart

  Mentira, Humildad, Orden

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• We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Iraq, Weapons

  "Tony Blair's Iraq War speech in full: How Labour's leader convinced MPs to vote for era-defining conflict". Article by Dan Bloom, www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2016.

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• It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

  "Powell admits weapons may not be found" by Duncan Campbell, Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2004.

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• How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Credit, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). "Obras Completas"

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• Nuestros investigadores de la opinión pública están satisfechos de que mantuviera las opiniones apropiadas para la época del año; cuando había paz, él estaba a favor de la paz; cuando había guerra, él iba. Se casó y añadió cinco hijos a la población, que según nuestro eugenista era el número adecuado para un padre de su generación, y nuestros profesores afirman que nunca interfirió en su educación. ¿Era libre? ¿Fue feliz? La pregunta es absurda: Si todo hubiera estado mal, sin duda nos habríamos enterado.

  W. H. Auden

  Teacher, Children, War

  "The Unknown Citizen" l. 22 (1939)

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• By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Sadness

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• Levántate temprano. Al que madruga Dios le ayuda. No te dejes engañar por esta absurda ley; una vez conocí a un hombre que lo intentó. Se levantó al amanecer y un caballo le mordió.

  Mark Twain

  Caballo, Hombre, Ley

  Mark Twain (2017). "Las Obras Completas de Mark Twain (Edición Ilustrada): Novelas, Cuentos, Memorias, Cuadernos de Viaje, Cartas, Biografía, Artículos y Discursos: Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer y Huckleberry Finn, La vida en el Mississippi, Yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo...", p.8122, e-artnow

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• We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

  Claude Bernard

  Nature, Believe, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Talking, America

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• Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Wisdom, Mistake

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.773, Library of Alexandria

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• Si meditas el tiempo suficiente, lo suficientemente profundo, es imposible que hagas daño a nadie por la comida; es imposible. No es cuestión de argumentos, no es cuestión de escrituras, no es cuestión de quién dice qué, no es cuestión de calcular que si tomas comida vegetariana te volverás espiritual; es automático. No es una cuestión de astucia, simplemente te vuelves espiritual. Todo esto parece tan absurdo. Sólo por comida, matar animales, pájaros, parece tan absurdo, se cae.

  Rajneesh

  Espiritual, Herida, Caída

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• . . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.

  David Rabe

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.

  Iain Pears

  Believe, Passion, Men

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• It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Mistake, Past, Men

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• El público siempre, y en todas las épocas, ha sido mal educado. Continuamente están pidiendo al arte que sea popular, que complazca su falta de gusto, que halague su absurda vanidad, que les diga lo que ya les han dicho antes, que les muestre lo que deberían estar cansados de ver, que les divierta cuando se sienten pesados después de comer demasiado, y que distraiga sus pensamientos cuando están cansados de su propia estupidez.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Tired, Vanity

  Oscar Wilde General Press (2016). "Las obras completas de Oscar Wilde: Novela, Cuentos, Poesía, Ensayos y Obras de Teatro", p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

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