Absurdity Quotes

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Him, Existence

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus

Feeling, Face, Street

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Belief, Statement

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

Cannot, Almost, Imitation

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.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Hope, Human

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Age, Great, Human

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought, Remain, Masters

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

Person, Rather, Talking

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Work, Fear, View

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nature, Truth, May

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.
Vaclav Havel

Impossible, Around, Point

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

Concept, Attracted

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Wisdom, Another, Often

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.
David Lynch

Life, Humor, Ignorance

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Serious, Potential, Perhaps

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

Champion, Defend

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

Experience, Words, Meaning

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
John Podhoretz

Change, Hope, Him

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

Social, Criticism, Correct

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes

Living, Subject, Privilege

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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Death, Making, High

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
Christoph Waltz

Someone, Reality, Through

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.
Phil Ochs

Life, Religion, Art

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Julio Cortazar

Living, Possible, Break

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Alexander Herzen

Everything, Insanity, Childhood

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
Neil LaBute

Care, Bad, Happen

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
Jason Bateman

Reality, Enjoy, Comedy

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Errol Morris

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Him, Treat, Child

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe

Truth, War, Made

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