Absurd Quotes

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, “You know, I gotta do this.”

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.

We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .