Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in…

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a…

— William Butler Yeats

“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!”

— Sorin Cerin

“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but…

— Martin Gardner

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face,…

— Paul Auster

“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning…

— Fernando Pessoa

“What distances can be explored without God?”

— Sorin Cerin

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

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