Quotes about absurdity

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

— Lord Byron

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

— Albert Camus

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Thomas Hobbes

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

— Archibald Macleish

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

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

— Agnes Repplier

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

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