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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

sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She — Colleen Hoover

To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic. — Marty Rubin

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

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

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson

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

The absurdity of it all. — Lauren DeStefano

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

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

Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do. — Steven Erikson

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

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

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it. — Larry Bird

I am a hair-lock; I am floating in the gutters to meet the rubber-band. — Amaan Ahmad

The absurd is sin without God. — Albert Camus

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel

If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me. — Marty Rubin

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger. — Isaac Marion

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument. — George Tyrrell

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin

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

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. — Mac Barnett

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

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce. — Don Winslow

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends — Dean Cavanagh

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

[ ... ] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl Von Clausewitz

What before seemed a ... frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. — Bill Hicks

Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination. — Paul Broks

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

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

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. — Benjamin Franklin

Then he thrust the knife into my stomach and said:
You're shaking. — Hassan Blasim

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth. — Tanya Huff

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all. — Diane Keaton

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein

The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks. — Leo Tolstoy

the absurdity of a smoking skyscraper. — Hugh Howey

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To me absurdity is the only reality — Frank Zappa