Thomas Nagel when he ‘seized the reality of our existence” wrote in Mortal Questions:

Our absurdity warrants neither that much distress nor that much defiance. At the risk of falling into romanticism by a different route, I would argue that absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

His website in NYU is the following:
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/thomasnagel