Absurd Quotes

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. But as it nevertheless intends all the time to be something dignified, at the next moment it corrects and checks and tries to cover up the absurd thing it was; […]

Credo quia absurdum est (I believe because it is absurd). And the Son of God died, which is immediately credible because it is absurd. And buried he rose again, which is certain because it is impossible.

Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.