Quotes About Absurdity

Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Flying is simple; just throw yourself on the ground and miss.

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.

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...

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.