Pastoral Resources

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

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.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

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.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.