I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

- Claire Danes

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

- Francis Atterbury

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

- Franklin Pierce

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

- Eddie Trunk

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

- Erica Jong

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

- Dominic Cooper

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

- Daniel Berrigan

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

- Denis Diderot

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

- Danny DeVito

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

- Cy Twombly

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

- Albert Camus

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

- Cate Blanchett

It is absurd to look for perfection.

- Camille Pissarro

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

- Bruce Cockburn

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

- Brad Bird

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

- Brandon Lee

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

- Baruch Spinoza

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

- Anthony Hope

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

- Andrew Bird

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

- Albert Camus