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It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX — W. Somerset Maugham

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity. — Anonymous

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

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

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes

Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked. — Ron Brackin

God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion! — Sorin Cerin

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus

The absurdity of it all. — Lauren DeStefano

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison

He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists' game — Ayn Rand

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it. — Lita Burke

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. — Anthony Daniels

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves. — Thomas Keneally

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. — Orson Pratt

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

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience. — John Adams

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications. — Joseph Conrad

Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence. — Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. — Frederick Lenz

Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside. — Ludwig Von Mises

On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily — Jose Saramago

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Against a broken heart, even absurdity falters.
Because words fall away.
A dialogue of silence.
That deafens. — Steven Erikson

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. — William Batchelder Greene

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment. — W. Somerset Maugham

Like Puck I like it best when things turn out preposterously. — Marty Rubin

I used my pants to illustrate. — Mike Singletary

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke — Barbara W. Tuchman

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. — Baruch Spinoza

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button? — Mary E. Pearson

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all. — David Cronenberg

Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong. — Haruki Murakami

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault

If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort

It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another. — Mikhail Bakunin

If we are looking to employ logic to infer a deity, we fall into absurdity. — Andrew Furst

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth

Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity? — George Orwell

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus

Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable — David Vann

I can't go on, I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur. — Ian Strang

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Oliver Goldsmith

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. — Wendy Farley

Do I express my thoughts lucidly?
I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity. — Mikhail Bulgakov

What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality. — Joseph Roth

Absurdity, only you are pure. — Cesar Vallejo

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. — Tom Robbins

But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality. — Leila Sales

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

To me absurdity is the only reality — Frank Zappa

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity. — Astro Teller

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true ... — John Geddes

The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot. — Ian Strang

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell

Do not sanction an absurdity. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree
and one to the sweet absurdity
in the miracle of the verb to be.
Lucky you, lucky me. — Miller Williams

Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream. — Anthony Ryan

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility. — Chandrashekar

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters. — Christopher McCandless

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity! MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous. — Charles Simic

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius

Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void — Dean Cavanagh

There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously. — Baltasar Gracian

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

One is always willfully absurd ... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot. — Galen Beckett

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

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity. — Stephen King

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

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity. — Bertrand Russell

You may not be interested in absurdity," she said firmly, "but absurdity is interested in you. — Donald Barthelme

We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice. — Tom Stoppard

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. — Sherwood Anderson

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of
free will would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. — George Sand

Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world. — Robert Zaretsky

Marriage needed the absurdity of values. — Manu Joseph

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. — Tristan Tzara

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. — Natalie Standiford

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. — Phil Ochs

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier