Quotes About Absurdity

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

It's my job to be ridiculous.

I've always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he is certainly Dickensian in his absurdity.

I just have an endless well of ridiculous things that have happened to me.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.

I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.

It's the very absurdity of the British which makes them so impossible to radicalize. And why we should envy them.

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd— The little dogs under their feet.

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

Wow, there's lumps in the cosmic gravy. No seriously, there's lumps in the cosmic gravy!" -Phish, July 30th, 2017

To Marcel Duchamp's blithe "There is no solution, because there is no problem," the Japanese visual artist Shigeko Kubota replied, "There is no problem, because there is no solution.

Vouloir donner à la prose le rythme du vers (en la laissant prose et très prose) et écrire la vie ordinaire comme on écrit l'histoire ou l'épopée (sans dénaturer le sujet) est peut-être une absurdité. Voilà ce que je me demande parfois. Mais c'est peut-être aussi une grande tentative et très originale

To me, most filmmaking is a kind of visualization of how people are. The dark, the light, the absurdity of life, all the crazy things, you know? So all of the characters that I've made have been really close to my heart. I guess what I'm interested in is just visualizing a really three-dimensional picture of a person.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Cause if there's one thing Islamic terrorists don't have is....(seriously thinking about it)....%#@&!

Chip's sphincter had meanwhile dilated nearly to the degree of unconditional surrender.

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.