Quotes about Absurdity

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

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims we have been told are facts. Hope is the refusal to accept the reading of reality which is the majority opinion; and one does that only at great political and existential risk. On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.