Absurd Quotes
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
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It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.
David O. Russell
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
Albert Camus
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
Oscar Wilde
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. Barnum
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
Tavi Gevinson
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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
Albert Camus
