Absurdity Quotes

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. (Samuel Johnson)
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. View quote
Joseph Addison
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk. View quote
Oswald Mosley
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. View quote
Albert Camus
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. View quote
Václav Havel
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. View quote
Václav Havel
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. View quote
Václav Havel
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. (Oliver Goldsmith)
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely. View quote
Carl Menger
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird. View quote
Frank Zappa
To me, absurdity is the only reality. View quote
Frank Zappa
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context, is by far the most radical – in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man. View quote
Gao Xingjian
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)
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. View quote
Frank McCourt
We look at-the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the theater of it all, you know, which, by the way, thank you both, because it's been helpful. View quote
Jon Stewart
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever's going on. View quote
Jon Stewart
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word... View quote
Eva Hesse