Quotes About Absurdity

No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side.

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

de sus acreedores, su madre no tuvo más remedio que vender algunas tierras. ¡Quinientos francos en guantes! ¿El oso blanco con guantes blancos? Qué va, qué va; más bien el loro enguantado.

pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole

I reflected how absurd it was for me to be buried in my coat collar despite the stifling heat, unable to make the slightest physical movement, like an insect playing dead.

To the left of the rubber boots in the front lie the corpse of the mask and the button. I leave it all up to you. I shall have returned home a step ahead of you. I pray with all my heart that you will come back with your usual expression, as if nothing has happened.…

She seemed to be wearing frozen fish bladders for shoes. But

If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.

Load of ole mollygrubbers

At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.

This law of capitalistic society would sound absurd to savages, or even civilised colonists. It calls to mind the boundless reproduction of animals individually weak and constantly hunted down.24

Production by an isolated individual outside society... is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other

I stopped listening to Justin. I don't think he likes to leave anything as nature intended. He'd iron out the lump on a camel's back and get a pelican to have its throat lifted.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.