Absurdity

"The more absurd life is, the more unsupportable death is."

"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."

"We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art."

"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."

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

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down … Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."

"A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk."

"The logical figure of the absurd, which presents as stringent the contradictory opposite of stringency, negates all the meaningfulness logic seems to provide in order to convict logic of its own absurdity: to convict it of using subject, predicate, and copula to lay out the nonidentical as though it were identical, as though it could be accommodated with forms."

"I very much like your love of pleasure, and your humour and malice: it is so delightful to live in a world that is full of pictures, and incident divertissements, and amiable absurdities. Why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together."

"There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light."