Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
Only exceptional rational men can afford to be absurd.
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.