Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

— Kim Shattuck

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

— James Marsters

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

— Hunter S. Thompson

One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push…

— Alexander Weinstein

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

— William Wharton

“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that…

— Albert Camus

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid…

— Leslie Charteris

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

— Albert Camus

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions…

— Anonymous

“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

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

— Anonymous

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

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are…

— Albert Camus

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

— Stanley Crouch