Absurdity and anti— absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit.Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith!(Institutio III.2.3)

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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

At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.

Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.