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“The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
― David Lynch

“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation �� maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“You may not be interested in absurdity," she said firmly, "but absurdity is interested in you.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?”
― Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala

“Your only chance of survival, if you are severely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances. What sadness there is in this simple observation! What an accusation against man! Love makes you weak, and the weaker of the two is oppressed, tortured, and finally killed by the other, who in his or her turn oppresses, tortures, and kills without having evil intentions, without even getting pleasure from it, with complete indifference; that's what men, normally, call love.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

“There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

“It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Terror washed through him, and then was replaced by a sense of cosmic absurdity.”
― Stephen King, It

“I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“[On Dr. Strangelove]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...] What could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?”
― Stanley Kubrick

“To-do list : to-do list!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.”
― Brian Spellman

“A person shattered by their loss in faith must come to terms with the underlying fear and tension of his or her austere solitude and knowingly accept that the universe is utterly indifferent to a person’s survival. Establishment of an ethical code �� a philosophical stance �� that enables a person to accept the absurdity of living in a world indifferent to them is the ultimate challenge.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Playing a fool is the best paid role.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Ordinary reality and human life is probably the most extraordinary development of all spaces and times. It shows and proves how the greatest fantasy and absurdity can be the only reality for billions of souls. The great gift we receive from our human reality, when we are ready to accept it, is the capacity to follow its example, allowing all our fantasies, even the most absurd, to become real.”
― Franco Santoro

“Is that kink I smell?" I sounded like a sexy shark, circling.”
― Mackenzie Snow, Dungeon Crawlers #1: Origins

“Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Kita tidak bisa membuat rencana. Membuat impian pun tidak. Hanya menjalani sampai ujung jalan! Atau jadi badut seperti tukang obat pinggir jalanan.”
― Nasjah Djamin, Dan Senja pun Turun

“Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.”
― Ron Brackin

“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too well. Even if I could begin again it would be no use, because fundamentally I have no desire to work and no desire to become a usefull member of society. I sit there staring at the house across the way. It seems not only ugly and senseless, like all the other houses on the street, but from staring at it so intently, it has suddenly become absurd. The idea of constructing a place of shelter in that particular way strikes as absolutely insane. The city itself strikes me as a piece of the highest insanity, everything about it, sewers, elevated lines, slot machines, newspapers, telephones, cops, doorknobs, flophouses, screens, toilet paper, everything. Everything could just as well not be and not only nothing lost but a whole universe gained. I look at the people brushing by me to see if by chance one of them might agree with me. Supposing I intercepted one of them and just asked him a simple question. Supposing I just said to him suddenly: "Why do you go on living the
way you do?" He would probably call a cop. I ask myself - does anyone ever talk to himself the way I do? I ask myself if there isn't something wrong with me. The only conclusion I can come to is that I am different.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word, to make that one gesture, is running out for them. What gesture, what word, I don't know, a man dies from not having said it, from not having made it, this is what he dies of, not from sickness, and that is why, when dead, he finds it so difficult to accept death. (Jose Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, p 122)”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“Not everyone has the time to be normal.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Remember, today’s truth could be tomorrow’s absurdity.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.”
― Cay Van Ash, Ten Years Beyond Baker Street:

“Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.”
― Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End

“People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.”
― Brian Spellman

“The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains.”
― O Anna Niemus