Quotes About Absurdism

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.

The reason why most absurdist plays take place in a no man's land with only two characters is mainly financial.

It was an absurd journey.

From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.

Life is an endless journey through stupidity.

He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

The popularity of Dilbert, The Office, and any number of other pop-culture windows on cubicle life attests to the dark absurdism with which many Americans have come to view their white-collar work."2 It has been only in the past hundred years that work has become this way. In the centuries of civilization prior, many more of us had crafts and skills that gave us pride.

I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.

Absurdism is the last proof that Christian truth is absolute and uncompromising, or else it is the same as no truth at all; and if there is no truth, if Christian truth is not to be understood literally and absolutely, if God is dead, if there is no immortality- then this world is all there is, and this world is absurd, this world is hell.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all. —Albert Camus

Leave me to my own absurdity.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Right now, me get­ting killed would be redun­dant.

It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

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