The absurdity of it all.

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