“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”

“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

“He was a master of humor. He believed that humor is the test of the natural, of the sensible, of the truth. To him most persons who have no sense of humor are generally absurd.”

Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician

“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.”

Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter

“What we call absurd is our ignorance.”

Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) Argentinian writer

“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.”

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic

“Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

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

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

John Allen Paulos (1945) American mathematician

“Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.”

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice