Absurd Quote by Albert Camus

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him.…

— 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

“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

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“When first resurrected, he’d worried constantly over which aspects of his past he should imitate for the sake of sanity, and which he should…

— Greg Egan

“He was absurd to the point of inspiration.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me…

— Albert Camus

“When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Mircea Eliade

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth