The fact that we exist at all, not just as matter but as minds, as people capable of reflecting on existence, defies every category of logic. We are the only known species to invent meaning in a universe that offers none. That tension is absurd. And yet, from that absurdity arises something quietly transcendent. We choose to create, to care, to persist. Even though we know we will lose everything. Even though none of it is guaranteed to matter. We take a chance.
This is not a cause for despair. If anything, it is a call to clarity. To live as a human being is to walk into the void with your eyes open. We are not sane because we avoid contradiction. We are sane because we live through it. The courage to love in a world that ends, to build in a world that collapses, to speak in a world that forgets, is not naïveté. It is madness turned into meaning.
On perspective
Camus on Absurdity
Albert Camus wrote in The Myth of Sisyphus that the absurd is born of the confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. Your quote echoes that tension, not as tragedy, but as something strangely beautiful.
Kierkegaard on Faith
Søren Kierkegaard spoke of the leap of faith, the irrational, inward movement a person makes when reason reaches its limit. To live with courage, in spite of absurdity, is an existential form of that leap.
Weil on Attention
Simone Weil believed that attention, the radical act of looking directly at suffering and absurdity without fleeing, is a form of grace. To live attentively within the absurd is itself an act of sacred resistance.