The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Tom Courtenay

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Paul Valery

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Leonard Maltin

The logic of the heart is absurd.
Julie de Lespinasse

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
Todd Gitlin

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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.
Clarence Darrow

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
John Doolittle

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
Alva Myrdal

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Laurence Sterne

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.
Heston Blumenthal

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.
Mark E. Hyman