I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Malcolm Boyd

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Robert Wyatt

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
Joanna Baillie

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.
Sophie Marceau

I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.
Graham Nash

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
Lake Bell

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

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
Claire Forlani

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
Jonathan Shapiro

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
Brad Bird

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

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
Jenna Elfman

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
George P. Baker