Absurd Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

— Fernando Pessoa

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions…

— Anonymous

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary,…

— Vaclav Havel

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is…

— Moby

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself…

— Joseph Conrad

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of course not.…

— Emil Cioran

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for…

— David Hume

“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick