Quotes About Absurdity

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.

The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

You can't press a button to make Phil Mitchell jump over a turtle and land on a cloud (unless you've recently ingested a load of military-grade hallucinogens, in which case you can also make him climb inside his own face and start whistling colours).

Forgive my pants for remaining unshitten.

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.

After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

metaphysical emotion, is a plot to nothingness

The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life from being a total waste, like one constant jacking-off party.

Let me just say it: Bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

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

making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord

make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,'" Hunter murmured.

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

Oh ! si au lieu d'être un enfer, l'univers n'avait été qu'un céleste anus immense, regardez le geste que je fais du côté de mon bas-ventre : oui, j'aurais enfoncé ma verge, à travers son sphyncter sanglant, fracassant, par mes mouvements impétueux, les propres parois de son bassin !

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own making

Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity of life.

A dry little laugh at the grotesquerie of using this stock phrase. At having occasion to use it.

lately is has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.