Absurd Quotes

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

What is utterly absurd happens in the world.

Only the exceptionally equanimous person can allow himself to be absurd.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

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

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one’s lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.

The world is so overflowing with absurdity that it is difficult for the humorist to compete.