Absurd Quote by Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

“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

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

— Albert Camus

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as…

— Albert Camus

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

— Martin Esslin

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This…

— Albert camus

“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by…

— Michael Bakunin

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us…

— Albert Camus

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky