An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.