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Quotes on 'absurdity'

Welcome to our collection of quotes on absurdity! Here you will find a diverse range of witty, thought-provoking, and sometimes profound reflections on life's inherent absurdity. From renowned philosophers and authors to comedians and satirists, these quotes offer a fresh perspective on the irrational, nonsensical aspects of our existence. Explore this compilation to delve into the humorous, bewildering, and often inexplicable aspects of the human condition. Get ready to ponder, chuckle, and perhaps even question the very essence of reality itself.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Read Summary

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Read Summary

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Read Summary

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. Read Summary

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand. Read Summary

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Read Summary

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Read Summary

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. Read Summary

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. Read Summary

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? Read Summary

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Read Summary

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. Read Summary

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. Read Summary

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. Read Summary

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Read Summary

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. Read Summary

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. Read Summary

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Read Summary

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Read Summary

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. Read Summary