Quotes about Absurdity

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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

Most of nature seems to totally accept major loss, gross inefficiency, mass extinctions, and short life spans as the price of life at all. Feeling that sadness, and even its full absurdity, ironically pulls us into the general dance, the unified field, an ironic and deep gratitude for what is given—with no necessity and so gratuitously. All beauty is gratuitous. So whom can we blame when it seems to be taken away? Grace seems to be at the foundation of everything.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.