At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face
- Albert Camus
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... born of the confrontation
between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world
- Albert Camus (on absurdity)
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
- Pierce
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties?
Perhaps hopelessness is the very
soil that nourishes human hope;
perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity
- Havel
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him
- Nietzsche
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I have too much respect for the idea of
God to make it responsible
for such an absurd world
- Georges Duhamel
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence
must be careful to insult nothing.
Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure
- Goethe
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.
- Aldous Leonard Huxley
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There is only one success ...
to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
- Christopher Darlington Morley
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