Quotes About Absurdity

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

began to wonder when this expedition had crossed the boundary from the merely fantastic into the region of the absurdly unbelievable.

I'm not a cuckoo, either. I'm a fool is what.

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

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.

The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as "acceptable," the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it.

I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments ?

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

Here I am, with my book and my pencil - the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough. But a housemaid out of a reformatory, with a plain face and a deformed shoulder, falling in love, at first sight, with a gentleman who comes on a visit to her mistress's house, match me that, in the way of an absurdity, out of any story-book in Christendom, if you can! I

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down?

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present

Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and "he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

Mystery Epidemic of Imbecility.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Only half-wits can stumble into such enormities.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale

What gets wetter the more it dries?