The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.