It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a…

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

— Marcel Proust

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

— Elbert Hubbard

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

— Jodi Balfour

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of…

— Marcel Proust

“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.”

— Marcel Proust

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

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

— Jane Austen

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

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