Absurdity Quotes

352 Absurdity quotes by 265 unique authors

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps… — Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… — D. H. Lawrence
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. — David Lynch
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real… — David Lynch
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen… — David Lynch
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. — Errol Morris
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. — William Osler
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. — Thomas Paine
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him… — John Podhoretz
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and… — Lysander Spooner

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