Life Quote by Jorge Volpi

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— 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

“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

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

— Natasha Lyonne

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

— Thomas Nagel

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as…

— Albert Camus

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases…

— Hermann Hesse

“But isn’t absurdity part of being human? We aren’t ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar. Our worlds are small, our lives are…

— Margaret Rogerson

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of…

— Albert Camus