Quotes about Absurdism

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Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when th — Albert Camus, The Stranger
We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them. — Albert Camus, The Plague
Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the fam — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the im — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause w — Quentin Crisp
One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and — Alfred Jarry, Selected Works
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of t — Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium de — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the — Albert Camus
. . . Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom. — George Saunders
Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most dreamy- — Ashim Shanker
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of — Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to em — Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which ha — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cy — Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining ag — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless. — Albert Camus
Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," — Joseph Patrick Pascale
Existence is illusory and it is eternal. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays