Quotes about Absurdity

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

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

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

I am a confectionery-based existentialist.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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

Most of nature seems to totally accept major loss, gross inefficiency, mass extinctions, and short life spans as the price of life at all. Feeling that sadness, and even its full absurdity, ironically pulls us into the general dance, the unified field, an ironic and deep gratitude for what is given—with no necessity and so gratuitously. All beauty is gratuitous. So whom can we blame when it seems to be taken away? Grace seems to be at the foundation of everything.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.