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“Be serious,鈥� said Enjolras. 鈥淚 am wild,鈥� replied Grantaire.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Mis茅rables

“鈥擳hen, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?

鈥擨 said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never done anything like that in his time of life, and wasn't going to start now.

The King's argument was that anything that had a head, could be beheaded, and you weren't to talk nonsense.

The Queen's argument was that if something wasn't done about it in less than no time, she'd have everyone beheaded all round.

It was this last argument that had everyone looking so nervous and uncomfortable.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang-outang journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...”
― Louis-Ferdinand C茅line, Normance

“If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.

[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]”
― Frederick the Great

“And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs?”
― William Golding, The Spire

“Le suicide est une solution 脿 l'absurde.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Viver, naturalmente, nunca 茅 f谩cil. Continuamos fazendo os gestos que a exist锚ncia imp玫e por muitos motivos, o primeiro dos quais 茅 o costume. Morrer por vontade pr贸pria sup玫e que se reconheceu, mesmo instintivamente, o car谩ter rid铆culo desse costume, a aus锚ncia de qualquer motivo profundo para viver, o car谩ter insensato da agita莽茫o cotidiana e a inutilidade do sofrimento. Qual 茅 ent茫o o sentimento incalcul谩vel que priva o esp铆rito do sono necess谩rio para a vida? Um mundo que se pode explicar, mesmo com racioc铆nios err么neos, 茅 um mundo familiar. Mas num universo repentinamente privado de ilus玫es e de luzes, pelo contr谩rio, o homem se sente um estrangeiro. 脡 um ex铆lio sem solu莽茫o, porque est谩 privado das lembran莽as de uma p谩tria perdida ou da esperan莽a de uma terra prometida. Esse div贸rcio entre o homem e sua vida, o ator e seu cen谩rio 茅 propriamente o sentimento do absurdo. E como todos os homens sadios j谩 pensaram no seu pr贸prio suic铆dio, pode-se reconhecer, sem maiores explica莽玫es, que h谩 um la莽o direto entre tal sentimento e a aspira莽茫o ao nada.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside.
"I fry mine in butter!" indeed.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny the truth of the New Testament; and that to deny the existence of these imps of darkness is to contradict the words of Jesus Christ.

I did say that if we give up the belief in devils we must give up the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, and we must give up the divinity of Christ. Upon that declaration I stand, because if devils do not exist, then Jesus Christ was mistaken, or we have not in the New Testament a true account of what he said and of what he pretended to do.

If the New Testament gives a true account of his words and pretended actions, then he did claim to cast out devils. That was his principal business. That was his certificate of divinity, casting out devils. That authenticated his mission and proved that he was superior to the hosts of darkness.

Now, take the devil out of the New Testament, and you also take the veracity of Christ; with that veracity you take the divinity; with that divinity you take the atonement, and when you take the atonement, the great fabric known as Christianity becomes a shapeless ruin.

The Christians now claim that Jesus was God. If he was God, of course the devil knew that fact, and yet, according to this account, the devil took the omnipotent God and placed him upon a pinnacle of the temple, and endeavored to induce him to dash himself against the earth鈥�

Think of it! The devil 鈥� the prince of sharpers 鈥� the king of cunning 鈥� the master of finesse, trying to bribe God with a grain of sand that belonged to God!
Casting out devils was a certificate of divinity.

Is there in all the religious literature of the world anything more grossly absurd than this?
These devils, according to the Bible, were of various kinds 鈥� some could speak and hear, others were deaf and dumb. All could not be cast out in the same way. The deaf and dumb spirits were quite difficult to deal with. St. Mark tells of a gentleman who brought his son to Christ. The boy, it seems, was possessed of a dumb spirit, over which the disciples had no control. 鈥淛esus said unto the spirit: 鈥楾hou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him.鈥欌€� Whereupon, the deaf spirit (having heard what was said) cried out (being dumb) and immediately vacated the premises.

The ease with which Christ controlled this deaf and dumb spirit excited the wonder of his disciples, and they asked him privately why they could not cast that spirit out. To whom he replied: 鈥淭his kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.鈥� Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?

The trouble is, these pious people shut up their reason, and then open their Bible.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.”
― Larry Bird

“Je disais que le monde est absurde et j'allais trop vite. ce monde en lui-m锚me n'est pas raisonnable, c'est tout ce qu'on en peut dire. Mais ce qui est absurde, c'est la confrontation de cet irrationnel et de ce d茅sir 茅perdu de clart茅 dont l'appel r茅sonne au plus profond de l'homme. L'absurde d茅pend autant de l'homme que du monde. Il est pour le moment leur seul lien. Il les scelle l'un 脿 l'autre comme la haine seule peut river les 锚tres. C'est tout ce que je puis discerner clairement dans cet univers sans mesure o霉 mon aventure se poursuit.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...”
― Joseph Conrad

“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“...I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she saw at the Pierre, rolling around the lobby of its own accord or something like that.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“Ce que je ne comprends pas est sans raison. Le monde est peupl茅 de ces irrationnels. A lui seul dont je ne comprends pas la signification unique, il n'est qu'un immense irrationnel.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.”
― Lita Burke, Old Bony Blue Eyes

“Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.”
― Francis M. Nevins Jr., The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.

("Introduction")”
― Francis M. Nevins, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

“HAMM:
Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!
CLOV (violently):
That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
(Pause.)”
― Beckett Samuel

“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.”
― Elmina Drake Slenker, Studying the Bible