Books Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

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

— Thomas Nagel

“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

I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions…

— Laurie Foos

“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

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

— Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.”

— Anonymous

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

— Albert Camus

Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that…

— Laurie Foos

“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We…

— Tzvi Freeman