Absurdity Of Life Quotes

• I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Echoes, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

  David Lynch

  Running, Wall, Struggle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Way, Life Is, Recognizing

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• Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Tired, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life.

  David Lynch

  Absurdity, Bloody, Pulp

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Opposites, Ideas

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

  Jenny Lawson

  Running, Joy, Imperfect

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

  Albert Camus

  Divorce, Men, Feelings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

  Chester Himes

  Life, Country, White

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• When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

  Anne Lamott

  Dancing, Laughing, Buoyancy

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.237, Anchor

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• The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

  Robin Roberts

  Running, Careers, Giving

  "Robin Roberts MDS: ‘GMA’ Co-Host Announces She Has Bone Marrow" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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