Quotes About Absurdity

A tr?i: a te specializa în eroare. A râde de adev?rurile sigure ale sfârÈ™irii, a nu lua in seam? absolutul, a transforma moartea în glum? ÅŸi-n întâmplare nesfârÈ™itul. Nu poÅ£i respira decât în afundurile iluziei.

I feel that I am dying of solitude, of love, of despair, of hatred, of all that this world offers me. (...) Life breeds both plenitude and void, exuberance and depression. What are we when confronted with the interior vortex which swallows us into absurdity?

Avec tes veines chargées de nuits, tu n'as pas plus ta place parmi les hommes qu'une épitaphe au milieu d'un cirque. / [Syllogismes de l'amertume]

Universul este o cenu?? în prefacere al c?rei rost nu-l înÅ£elege nimeni.

ViaÅ£a dezvolt? plenitudinea ÅŸi vidul, exuberanÅ£a ÅŸi depresiunea; ce suntem noi în faÅ£a vârtejului interior care ne consum? pân? la absurd? Simt cum trosneÅŸte viaÅ£a în mine de prea mult? intensitate, dar ÅŸi cum trosneÅŸte de prea mult dezechilibru. Este ca o explozie pe care n-o poÅ£i st?pâni, care te poate arunca ÅŸi pe tine în aer iremediabil.

lumea este un teatru ciudat. Sunt clipe cind cele mai proaste piese au cel mai mare succes.

Faptul c? exist eu dovede?te c? lumea nu are nici un sens.

Vivir: especializarse en el error. Burlarse de las verdades indubitadas, no hacer caso de lo absoluto, tomar a broma la muerte y transformar lo infinito en azar

Sólo la percepción del vacío permite triunfar sobre la muerte, pues, si todo carece de realidad, ¿por qué habría de tenerla la muerte?

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left — ignorant how to react — with a foolish grin.

When someone complains that his life has come to nothing, we need merely remind him that life itself is in an analogous situation, if not worse.

To exist is a state as little conceivable as its contrary. No, still more inconceivable.

The abundance of solutions to the aspects of existence is equalled only by their futility.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

When we have exhausted the pretexts which incite us to gaiety or melancholy, we come to the point of experiencing either one in a pure state: which is how we join the mad ...

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

reality" falls within the province of lunacy.

Il semplice fatto di esistere è talmente grave che, a paragone, Dio non è che un mero trastullo.

Everything is unique—and insignificant.

Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create fake gods, he then feverishly adopts them: his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike. His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

Si la Historia tuviera una finalidad, que lamentable sería el destino de quienes no hemos hecho nada en la vida. Pero en medio del absurdo general, nos alzamos triunfadores, piltrafas ineficaces, canallas orgullosos de haber tenido razón.