Full Idea
If life is absurd because it only lasts seventy years, wouldn't it be infinitely absurd if it lasted for eternity? And if we are absurd because we are small, would we be any less absurd if we filled the universe?
Gist of Idea
If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one
Source
Thomas Nagel (The Absurd [1971], §1)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'Mortal Questions' [CUP 1981], p.12