Absurdity Quotes

“Senselessness”

“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”

“The more absurd life is, the more unsupportable death is.”

“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art.”

“absurdity”

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

“Wikipedia: Absurdity”

“There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.”

“A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk.”

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

“The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

“In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.”

“Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”

“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.”

“It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down … Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.”

“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.”

“The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.”

“There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world.”

“I very much like your love of pleasure, and your humour and malice: it is so delightful to live in a world that is full of pictures, and incident divertissements, and amiable absurdities. Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.”