What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its…

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

“Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.”

— Ludwig von Mises

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

— Frederick Lenz

“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from the comparison…

— Albert Camus

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

— Eric Hoffer

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

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

— David Lynch