Quotes about Absurdity

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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell t — George Carlin
I can't go on, I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with — Carl Sagan
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. — Shannon L. Alder
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotion — H.P. Lovecraft, Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell, 1984
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein
Playing a fool is the best paid role. — Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin
It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and i — Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ou — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it. — Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very differen — Criss Jami, Killosophy
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.Your house has been des — David Walliams, Mr Stink
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongru — Kedar Joshi
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld