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Quotes About Absurdity

Encore des conneries dans le fond du jardin
~ John Irving
Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
~ John Lennon
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
~ Stendhal
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
~ Albert Camus
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
~ John Calvin
I will stop loving you when an apple grows from a mango tree on the 30th of February.
~ Unknown
La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.
~ Madeline Miller
C'est la folie humaine que je trouve amusante.
~ Madeline Miller
We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
There is no solution because there is no problem.
~ Marcel Duchamp
there's no solution, because there's no problem
~ Marcel Duchamp
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
~ Marcel Proust
By George, I had forty-seven pregnant women with horns trying to take a razoo at me.
~ John R. Erickson
David Birkmann? I can't believe it. It's like saying a duck did it.
~ John Sandford
Christ on a Popsicle stick.
~ John Scalzi
You came to see me about something?" "Yes, ma'am. A lawyer is here." "Toss him out a window." "Her, actually, I think." "So toss her out, then. Equally defenestratable.
~ John Scalzi
Whoever had my room last left a big pile of poopfruit on my desk, Niamh yelled, from their room. Seriously, what the actual fuck?
~ John Scalzi
Por supuesto, nada de todo esto tiene el menor sentido si te detienes a pensarlo —añadió Hester. —Nunca lo ha tenido.
~ John Scalzi
These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes.
~ John Steinbeck
I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn' even eat that chicken when she got done. They wasn't nothing but a pair a legs in her han'. Grampa throwed his hip outa joint laughin'. How'd my folks go so easy?
~ John Steinbeck
Oh my God!" I hear him yell to just about everybody. "Did you see that?! That was John Waters. I'm almost certain he has shit his pants!!" I hear grown men laugh in constipated smugness and digestive superiority.
~ John Waters