Quotes About Absurdity

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. And

A team of seven three-foot-high market analysts fell out of it and died, partly of asphyxiation, partly of surprise. Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it too, materializing in a large wobbly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

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I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling.

En ese caso debemos estar locos. - No es mal día para estarlo.

but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway.

Funny old thing, life, isn't it?

The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Ho pensato che una civiltà che era impazzita al punto di aver bisogno di includere in un pacchetto di stuzzicadenti una serie di dettagliate istruzioni per l'uso non era più una civiltà in cui potessi vivere restando sano di mente.

It's hard to get mad at Neal, because he suffers from a medical condition called total fucking stupidity.

She was like the boy who held his breath until he turned blue. Chimps are just as silly and absurd as human beings. Thank goodness we're not the only ridiculous species in the world!

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!

But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....

Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

If it's epilepsy we ought to put a cork in his mouth. Who's got a cork?" Nobody had a cork.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

It seems I come from a line that is overly emotional and deficient in reason. People have often praised us as sensitive and generous, but we appear to me to have a measure of sentimentality and absurdity in our blood.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

Did that Tik Tok just poop a giraffe?" Fergus asked.