Absurd Quote by Albert Camus

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Thomas Nagel

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

“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

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer