Absurdism Quotes

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being...

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal...

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it i...

Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about th...

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teach...

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its ...

Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it e...

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and thi...

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want...

. But itis obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it ...

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And e...

But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about ...

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poe...