Top 388 Absurdity Quotes & Sayings

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

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 to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

A king without power is an absurdity.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

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 our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

To me absurdity is the only reality

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity - that has completely detached from its intended object. It's left reality behind long ago. It's like something out of William Burroughs.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.