Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
“It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”
Return from the Excursion, Riders on Earth (1978)
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Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Context: What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. <!-- 153
“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 51.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace
Context: The antithesis between the Christian life and the life of bourgeois respectability is at an end. The Christian life comes to mean nothing more than living in the world and as the world, in being no different from the world, in fact, in being prohibited from being different from the world for the sake of grace. The upshot of it all is that my only duty as a Christian is to leave the world for an hour or so on a Sunday morning and go to church to be assured that my sins are all forgiven. I need no longer try to follow Christ, for cheap grace, the bitterest foe of discipleship, which true discipleship must loathe and detest, has freed me from that.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand
Source: Fool's Errand
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 173
Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist
Herman E. Daly, " Feynman's Unanswered Question http://journals.gmu.edu/PPPQ/article/view/172", Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, volume 26, number 1/2 (Winter/Spring 2006), p. 14