Absurdity Quote by Jane Hirshfield

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the…

— James Howard Kunstler

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean,…

— Joanna Baillie

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us…

— Albert Camus

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of…

— Mark Leyner

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Humor is the savior of sanity.

— Nick Vedros

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

— Billy Graham

“You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As…

— Philip Roth