Existentialism Quote by 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

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

— 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

“How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.”

— Jorge Volpi

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Thomas Nagel

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

— George Orwell

“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.”

— Anonymous

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Albert Camus