Quotes About Absurdity

Men, she said rueful, are the most absurd creatures on this green earth. But there are camels, Gabriel pointed out. Believe me, she answered. I've taken camels into consideration.

Living is abnormal.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

All theatre is absurd.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Free ponies for all Americans!

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Hay cosas absurdas que tienen toda la apariencia de un legítimo razonamiento:

Se había equivocado? Era terriblemente histérica, pero con rara manifestación desbordante; los nervios desordenados repiqueteaban hacia adentro, y de aquí la súbita tenacidad en un disparate, el brusco abandono de una convicción; y en los prodromos de las crisis, la obstinación creciente, convulsiva, edificándose a grandes bloques de absurdos. Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!

O, if only, instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense celestial anus!

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

The point is there ain't no point.

El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo -dijo sibilinamente Oliveira-. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento, ese así sea, esa sospechosa carencia de excepciones. Yo no sé, che, habría que intentar otro camino.

Sin pies ni cabeza.