Best Absurdist Quotes

#1. Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

George Sanders

#2. I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could do it, but it's actually turning into a cat now. This might happen at home I guess, but it probably won't."

Thu Tran

#3. But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive.

Albert Camus

#4. The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.

Albert Camus

#5. I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

Nicholas Royle

#6. 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.

Paul Krassner

#7. Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

Michael Schultz

#8. I have no rules on drinking. In your young days, you can play strong even if you are not healthy. If they want to get drunk and smoke, they can, but not immediately after a match when the body is weak and vulnerable.

Felix Magath

#9. I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

Joss Whedon

#10. The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Robert Sheckley

#11. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#12. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

Christopher Durang

#13. Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#14. Not all parachurch ministries are bad; in fact, the best ones foster collaboration across churches for important ministry and unity.

Mark Driscoll

#15. I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

Mike White

#16. My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.

Louise Hay

#17. Are you an evolutionist?
I'm an absurdist, ma'am. But let's suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can't we see them evolving? Are they still evolving?

Harrison Wheeler

#18. He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

Christopher Moore

#19. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

Arthur Adamov

#20. Personally I always preferred Lipton's.

Samuel Beckett

#21. Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

Bradley Sands

#22. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

#23. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#24. Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Groucho Marx

#25. I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Rose McGowan

#26. If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#27. I think absurdist humor is funny ...

Aziz Ansari

#28. I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.

Alisa Steinberg

#29. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

Francis M. Nevins Jr.