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We are convinced that believing in God is worthwhile. We thereby want to express the conviction that it is not death that has the last word but life; it is not the absurd but the full meaning in life that wins the day.
- Leonardo Boff
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.
- Rainbow Rowell
This story doesn't make any damn sense
- Ernest Cline
It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.
- Ernest Cline
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.
- GK Chesterton
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd!
- Max Lucado
Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.
- Ted Dekker
But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.
- Herman Melville
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
- Albert Camus
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
- Peter Mullan
Now we will let the knight of faith appear in the rôle just described. He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, "I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.
- Soren Kierkegaard