Quotes About Absurdity

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Sammy's so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt. -Steel Magnolias

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Five chickens do not make a cow.

There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.

The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?

It's just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

La gente si preparava sempre al domani. A me sembrava assurdo. Il domani non si stava certo preparando per loro. Non sapeva neppure che esistessero.

sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

You always get everything wrong. It's Goofy. It's not nuts.

Per poco Salima non scoppiò a ridere. Se lo faceva lei era un crimine, se lo metteva in vendita un'azienda era un prodotto. Qualsiasi cosa poteva diventare un prodotto.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.

If Pierre buys a horse for two hundred francs and Jacques buys a mule for a hundred and forty, and the two enter into a partnership and decide to trade their creatures for a piece of land that costs four hundred and eighty francs, then how long will it take a lame Frenchman to borrow a silk umbrella?

Life's absurd. Live authentically. Stop whining. Bam! I got into it.

Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.

You want to go out to dinner sometime? Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.

Big old fat naked naked dead guy flopped over a vacuum cleaner that was still chewing on his dick. This is my life, Trix.

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

No sense makes sense.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.