Quotes About Absurdity

manifestations of paranoia. 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.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

Gogol, Kafka y compañía… va a tener serios problemas si sigue por ese camino.

I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly." -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.

Leeches are singing in my asshole.

The hippo did, and I heard what sounded at first like a rabble, many voices talking over one another. Then I realized that they weren't talking. "Let me get this straight," the hippo said when I explained what was going on. "Leeches are singing inside my asshole.

I'm pretty sure I could tumble down all the stairs in the Empire State Building, naked, with a greased-up pepper grinder in each hand, and a box of candles around my neck, and still end up in the lobby with an empty rectum.

I'm not sure how long I lay there, blissed-out and farting.

Yes, I am talking about boat trailers, but also I am dying.

They think rabbits lay eggs and a monkey jumped over the got-damn moon. Stupid bitches don't know shit. Rabbits don't lay no eggs. Go-rilla can't shoot no dice.

I have $211 and it doesn't make any sense.

Something in the early summer of 2019 had us all thinking about enormous gaping assholes.

Don't go to the hardware store for milk.

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity.

I saw a bush taxi rumble down the one good road in the moonlight. Kids hung from it even at this hour, and three young men lay on their bellies on its roof, holding down a mattress with the weight of their own bodies. I felt that wave of absurdity, of pointlessness, that usually caught me in the earliest hours.

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid