I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a…

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

— Laurence Sterne

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this…

— Albert Camus

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of…

— Albert Camus

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can…

— 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 deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

— Murray Rothbard

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

— George Saunders

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm…

— David Mamet

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

— Sadegh Hedayat

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France

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

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

— J. C. Ryle

“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside…

— Lauren Oliver