Quotes About Absurdity

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

You can't fix stupid . . . even with duct tape.

You don't logic, man. You sheer don't logic.

Bob's Nobs.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Les cloches sonnent sans raison et nous aussi

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

Dada est la vie sans pantoufles ni parallèles; qui est contre et pour l'unité et décidément contre le futur; [...] et crachons sur l'humanité.

womanly insistence upon authority and beating once he was thoroughly drunk? I would wager that he is very nearly impotent: that would account for the woman's restless garrulity, her desire for predominance, absurdly combined with those girlish ways, and her thinning hair – she will be bald in a year or so.' 'It might be just as well if everybody were impotent,' said Jack sombrely. 'It would save a world of trouble.

It's a madhouse, of course. A complete, utter madhouse. I only hope to God it remains one.

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

insight," and the "message" of his books (which is no message at all) is similar to Gogol's in Nabokov's summary: "Something is very wrong and all men are mild lunatics engaged in petty pursuits that seem to them very important, while an

insight," and the "message" of his books (which is no message at all) is similar to Gogol's in Nabokov's summary: "Something is very wrong and all men are mild lunatics engaged in petty pursuits that seem to them very important, while an absurdly logical force keeps them at their futile jobs." By reputation Portis is reclusive, yet

She hated the love she had been given because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature. The love asking for nothing in return had managed to fill her with guilt, with a desire to fulfill another's expectations even if that meant giving up everything she had dreamed of for herself.

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.