Absurdity Quotes

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilli...

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By t...

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...

A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degr...

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either po...

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

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only be...

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matc...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will...

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and ...

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III....

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to d...

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ...

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh ...

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was bla...

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not...

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to se...

I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more fir...

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That...

I can't go on, I'll go on.

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, h...

If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a...

It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.