Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of human perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavors to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...

— Joseph Conrad

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.

— Lita Burke

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! There have to be certain limits...

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

— Jeannette Walls

My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that you are absurd? There is the basic stuff of life in your, isn't there? You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become humbler, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection! To reach perfection there must first be much we do not understand. And if we understand too quickly we will probably not understand very well. I tell this to you who have been able to understand so much and - do not understand.'p. 577

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.

— Steve Maraboli

Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.

— Ron Brackin

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

— Bryant McGill

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

— Ljupka Cvetanova