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Quotes About Absurdity

Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch
~ Wolfgang Pauli
It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.
~ Woody Allen
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
~ Woody Allen
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
~ Woody Allen
No, thanks. I already own a penguin.
~ Woody Allen
There's a snake in my butt!
~ Woody Allen
If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.
~ Woody Allen
Muerte (Una comedia) KLEINMAN: ¡Oh, no, no pienso quedarme aquí solo! ¡Estás de broma! ¡Hay un loco suelto por ahí! ¡Yo no me entiendo bien con los locos! Soy un individuo muy lógico. AL: El plan no permite que estemos juntos. KLEINMAN: Mira, no hagamos de esto un idilio. No tenemos que estar juntos nosotros. Con doce hombres fuertes cualesquiera me conformo.
~ Woody Allen
Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia
~ Woody Allen
Para acabar con las películas de terror El conde Drácula Así pasa el tiempo hasta que el alcalde, que ya no puede soportar la situación, abre de golpe la puerta del armario y grita: -¡Vamos, Drácula! Siempre pensé que usted era una persona sensata. ¡Déjese de locuras!
~ Woody Allen
Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?
~ Woody Allen
Vesmír je pouhou prchavou pÃ…â"¢edstavou v Boží mysli - pÄ›knÄ› nepÃ…â"¢íjemné pomyÅ¡lení, zvláÅ¡tÄ› když ?lovÄ›k právÄ› složil zálohu na byt. V??ná nicota nevadí, pokud jste na to oble?eni. Kdyby jen Dionýsos z?stal naživu! Kam by se chodil najíst? Nejen, že neexistuje žádný B?h, ale zkuste sehnat o víkendu instalatéra.
~ Woody Allen
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
~ Christopher Moore
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
~ Christopher Moore
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.
~ Christopher Moore
Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.
~ Unknown
Attacking the ostensible paradox of altering previously recorded historical events, Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies remains the ultimate, absurdly extreme, example for most devotees of this genre.1 Traversing the
~ Chuck Missler
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it
~ Cicero
Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?
~ Cicero
While he described his projects to me, I listened to him without being able to forget that he would not survive the week. What madness on his part to speek of the future, of his future! But once I had left, once I was outside, how to avoid thinking that after all, the difference was not so great between the mortal and the moribound? The absurdity of making plans is only a little more obvious in the second case.
~ Cioran
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
~ Clarence Darrow
A solução para esse absurdo que se chama "eu existo", a solução é amar um outro ser que, este, nós compreendemos que exista.
~ Clarice Lispector
Na vida nós somos artistas de uma peça de teatro absurdo escrita por um Deus absurdo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss