Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an…

“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of…

— Sean M. Carroll

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or…

— Anne Lamott

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life…

— André Malraux

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

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

“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