#absurd

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#depression #drugs #pharmaceuticals #psychiatry #psychology

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#children #god #life #life

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#belief #life #life

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd ↗

— Albert Camus

#life #life

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #life

I watched the sunset from the comfort of my bathtub, which has a clear bottom so I had an unobstructed view. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bathtub #sunset #life

The tire left a skid mark on the road that looked like a mustache. So I shaved it off the pavement, stuffed it in my trunk, and took it home to wear to work the next day. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#day #life #mustache #nonsense #pavement

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #meaning-of-life #nihilism #the-absurd #life

Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It’s tough because they’re slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #love #lube #slip #slippery