Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And…

— Martine Syms

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty…

— Anthony Hopkins

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

— Herbert Read

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…

— David Lynch

Annihilation is an absurdity in terms.

— Bernard Palissy

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— Albert Camus

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a…

— Agnes Repplier

“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We…

— Tzvi Freeman

To me absurdity is the only reality

— Frank Zappa

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

— Dean Koontz

Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds…

— Wendy Farley

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…

— Phil Ochs