Famous Quotes - Tags - Absurdity

  • Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. More
  • At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. More
  • Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the... More
  • I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink... More
  • In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or... More
  • In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their... More
  • It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do... More
  • It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life,... More
  • Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
    translate Proust. Now nothing is... More
  • Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he... More
  • My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in... More
  • Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea;
    And love is a thing that... More
  • People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. More
  • The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. More
  • The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. More
  • There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. More
  • There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. More
  • We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings,... More
  • When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions... More

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