Quotes About Absurdism

Absurdism: The concept that we cannot reconcile our desire to find a meaning of life with the fact that it is rationally impossible to do so. Also, various philosophers' ideas on how to lead an absurdist life. Some people who embrace the absurdist outlook find it hilarious in a bittersweet sort of way.

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

It seemed to me, said Wonko the sane, that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

In regard to absurdism, Samuel Beckett is sometimes considered to be the epitome of the postmodern artist … In fact, he is the aesthetic reductio ad absurdum of absurdism: no longer whistling in the dark, after waiting for Godot, he is trying to be radically silent, wordless in the dark.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

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

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Prenez un cercle, caressez-le, il deviendra vicieux.

Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Vorbitul a tout propos ?i hors de propos dup? modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neap?rat sus?inut de gra?ia primului, silueta impozant? a secundului sau de naivitatea teribil? a celui de al treilea.

Let us absurdify life from east to west

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Absurdo, completamente absurdo, una misma se confunde cuando juega con esos absurdos