Quotes About Absurdity

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

You're baloney without the mayo.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

El arte jamás deja de ser una mentira; cuando es verdad, ya no es arte y aburre, porque la realidad es solo un irremediable absurdo hastío.

Cuando el tipo reía, era como para ponerse a reflexionar sobre las imprevistas variantes de la imbecilidad humana.

Durante la fe, durante la duda, el hastío nos visita como el sueño: en el instante en que la voluntad afloja su tensión. Pero cuando la fe y la duda se dejan descubrir en su ingenua, profunda relación, y sobreviene el asombro ante la absurdidad de la existencia, ante la maravillosa indiferencia de Dios, uno recupera la calma para siempre, y la calma para siempre es el hastío.

You humans are crazy.

Students relished times when Reacting games careened into absurdity, such as when a young woman, as a Ming scholar, delivered a persuasive speech on why women should not speak in public, or when a disciple of Gandhi denounced modernity while referring to notes on his iPad.

Of course, from an absurdist perspective, all deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence.

What's that you say, girl? A foamy-mouthed kitty bit your ass and now you've gone mondo batshit?

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?