The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world…

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

— Anonymous

“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

— Anonymous

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?”

— Sherwood Anderson

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

— Kathleen Norris

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he…

— Mary Astell

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

— Walter Savage Landor

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room…

— William Osler

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

— Aldous Huxley