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

Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: 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.

Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet

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

Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: 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.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author

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

Author: Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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

Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher

Quote: 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 than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Author: Archibald Macleish 1892-1982, American Poet

Quote: 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.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

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

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

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

Author: Agnes Repplier 1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic

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

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher