CURATED COLLECTION

Laughing at Life's Absurdity

When you look directly at existence and find it completely ridiculous, the only sane response is laughter.

47 quotes found

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Everything beautiful is also slightly absurd, like the world itself.

—Bohumil HrabalWriter & King

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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You're on earth, there's no cure for that!

—Samuel BeckettNovelist & Playwright

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Laughter is healing. You gotta laugh at everything, even the pain.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

—Desiderius ErasmusScholar

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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The future is uncertain. Eat your soup while it's hot.

—Nasreddin HodjaPhilosopher & Satirist

Medieval ERA • MENA

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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

—Marilyn MonroeActress

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Nothing can be worse than a man who goes on and on. What is he talking about?

—Sei ShonagonAuthor

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Medical science has made such tremendous advances that there is hardly a healthy human left.

—Aldous HuxleyWriter & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I lost my key inside the house, but I'm looking for it here because there's light.

—Nasreddin HodjaPhilosopher & Satirist

Medieval ERA • MENA

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—Aldous HuxleyWriter & Philosopher

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Bureaucracy is the perfect absurd poem, where logic dies a thousand tiny deaths.

—Carmen NaranjoPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • Central America

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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see the world as it is.

—Elizabeth Cady StantonActivist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I buried my money under the biggest stone,' he said. Later, 'There is a bigger stone somewhere else!'

—Nasreddin HodjaPhilosopher & Satirist

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

—Samuel BeckettNovelist & Playwright

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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