So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?''He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.

He shook his head sadly. "What a fool you are. You've wasted your ability searching for something that doesn't exist.""When will you realize you don't exist?

They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

Revolutions is a sublime of bad literature.

A policewoman comes up and tells us to move along. “Nothing to see here,” she says. “Not even that stuff you’re looking at.

Janganlah bicara tentang mati. Aku belum mau memikirkan mati walaupun hidupku digelapi rasa kecut. Tapi yang aku tahu, aku ingin merasakan dan menembus jantung kehidupan ini dulu dan akupun tahu, bahwa aku juga tidak segan memutuskan nyawaku sendiri, bila hidup ini tidak pantas dihidupi.

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Immediately next door to Yossarian was Havermeyer, who liked peanut brittle and lived all by himself in the two-man tent in which he shot tiny field mice every night with huge bullets from the .45 he had stolen from the dead man in Yossarian's tent.