List of Absurdity Quotes in English with Images

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

- Absurdity Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860, German Philosopher Download or Share

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

- Absurdity Quote by Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679, British Philosopher Download or Share

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

- Absurdity Quote by Agnes Repplier 1858 - 1950, American Author, Social Critic Download or Share

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

-Samuel Butler Quotes Download or Share

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

-Absurdity Quotes by Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, " The evil's Dictionary"

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can be look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived.  Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd that it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

- Absurdity Quotes by Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet Download or Share

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

-Absurdity Quote by Albert Camus 1913 - 1960, French Existential Writer Download or Share

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

- Absurdity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher Download or Share