Quotes About Absurdity

Death often is the point of life's joke.

Mama mea, femeie fotogenic?, a murit în modul cel mai absurd (picnic, tr?snet) când aveam trei ani ÅŸi, în afara unui nor de c?ldur? în umbra trecutului, ea n-a l?sat nici o urm? pe drumurile pustii ale amintirii peste care a apus soarele copil?riei mele.

What a misunderstanding, said Cincinnatus and suddenly burst out laughing. He stood up and took off the dressing-gown, the skullcap, the slippers. he took off the linen trousers and shirt He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly colouring the air.

El espacio es un enjambre en los ojos; y el tiempo un zumbido en los oídos. En esta colmena estoy encerrado. Sin embargo, si antes de vivir hubiésemos sido capaces de imaginar la vida, ¡qué loca, imposible, indeciblemente extraña, maravillosa absurdidad nos hubiera parecido!» Pálido fuego. Canto tercero. Línea 220

the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense

Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane." --Thanatos

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

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

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam.

I'll eat my head.

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.

The law is a ass, Sir!

May the Devil carry away these idiots!

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office,

[T]he satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive. Swift destroyed the human race; Mark Twain and Thurber enabled it to go on. We human beings are all absurd variations of one another in any case, and this is what comedy of all kinds puts down on paper.

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

All human rules are more or less idiotic, I suppose. It is best so, no doubt. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.