184 Quotes About Absurdity

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

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

The same imagination which has produced great works of science and literature has also produced all the absurdities of mythology and religion.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Sometimes, what is seemingly unbearable in life holds the key to the Truth, as a liberating agent for the human mind to transcend from the absurdity and cruelty of this world. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Sensation of Not Being Dead)

When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.

His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.

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

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.