Quote by 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

“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

“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born 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 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

“To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary,…

— Gregor von Rezzori

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

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Thomas Nagel