Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. – Albert Camus
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. – Agnes Repplier
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. – Arthur Schopenhauer
