Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Cicero
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. Arthur Miller
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. Joshua Ferris
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies. Alain de Botton
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.Thomas Alva Edison
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.plato
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann