Quotes About Absurdity

Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

perfectly awful things. Farces,—that's what they are!

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

But what do you think all that shooting was about?" "It's U.S. 1," said Serge. "So it doesn't have to be about anything.

the residents had yet to acquire an appreciation for a South American midget screaming Spanish profanities like Frankie Valli and sucker-punching a fat woman into submission between the jacarandas.

And for those playing along at home, we have a new number one for the oxymoron files: death benefits.

A rapidly approaching jackass armada.

We may have just slipped through some kind of white-trash worm-hole in the time-space continuum.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

No sense makes sense.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

I think everybody's nuts.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside - it's all in there.

It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.

Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail? Where would you find a beaver that big? grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. I'm sure I don't know, he replied, but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

NONSENSE! Everyone loves a Humbug," shouted the Humbug. "As I was saying to the king just the other day——