Quotes About Absurdity

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

It is absurd to suppose that periods empty of love are blank pages in a woman's life. The truth is just the reverse. What remains to be said about a passionate love affair? It can be told in three lines. He loved me, I loved Him. His presence obliterated all other presences. We were happy. Then He stopped loving me and I suffered.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

I laugh again. Honestly, I don't know why I laughed so infrequently before. Everything is marvellous and ridiculous.

things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position of nothingness. And I think this is true. I don't think I'm anything; I never have thought that. Whatever it is that activates it is a certain kind of energy that goes on. But the effect is ridiculous; it's absurd." --Lincoln Kirstein in "The New Yorker

??i tôi là m?t h? vô không vi?t hoa.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!' 'It does if you're a goat.

Giraffes don't play golf.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Oh, this is horriculous.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.

But existence is a deflection.

I was nowhere, I was floating. I was not surprised, I knew it was the World, the naked World suddenly revealing itself, and I choked with rage at this gross, absurd being.

Meus estranhos sentimentos da outra semana me parecem hoje bastante ridículos; já não me identifico com eles.

Pakao, to su drugi.