Absurdity Quotes

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Annihilation is an absurdity in terms.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.