Absurd quotes
184 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."
"Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
"I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd."
"When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this.""
"What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?"
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"The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning."
"I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd."
"The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him."
"We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe."
"A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing."
"This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated."
"A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible."
"The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love."
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."
"No people find each other more absurd than lovers"
"God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations."
"The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd."
"We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses."
"Life is fragile and absurd."
"Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd"
"Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it."
"pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more."
