Quotes About Absurdity

Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.

No elaborate stories of monsters and quicksand and lightning and having to cross rivers of hot lava by jumping on the heads of ravenous lava earwigs the size of cows, with pincers made out of giant steel knives?

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....

Además, el tiempo se encarga de acabar con las ridiculeces. Es más, se encarga de acabar con todo.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

Os loucos são felizes, basta ver como se riem das coisas mais estúpidas que se possa imaginar. Riem felizes do voo de uma borboleta.

After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.

The absurdity of a life that may well end before one understands it does not relieve one of the duty (to that self which is inseparable from others) to live it through as bravely and as generously as possible.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Fish cannot carry guns.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

Joe Chip said, 'I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Christ on the crapper

It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.

What a way to live a life; what, as the other officer said just now, an endless nothing.