Quotes About Absurdity

Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.

The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!?

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

The prince is very brave, to love a unicorn. A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

The meaning of life is that it stops.

I'd like to go down and arrest them just for being this stupid." There oughta be a law, no doubt about

The two terms are mutually exclusive. Like military intelligence. An oxymoron, emphasis on moron.

Siempre me ha parecido que una de las preguntas más absurdas del mundo es: «¿Estás salvado?». Para contestar uno ha de sonar o bien esquivo y derrotista o demasiado complaciente. ?Creo que yo dije que solo puede esperarse lo mejor, pero a ella le pareció evasivo.

A Chihuahua with cataracts tried to have sex with her right leg. 'Stop that, Pedro

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

Uno absurdo dato, mille sequuntur – Admit but a single absurdity, you invite a thousand. The way of sin is downhill.

at the bottom of all meaning lies a residue of nonsense.

She was born without reason … to die; and she dies without reason….

For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.

Because death is meaningless, civilised life as such is meaningless.

Živi ništa ne znaju. Pou?ite me, mrtvi, kako se može umrijeti bez straha, ili bar bez užasa. Jer, smrt je besmisao, kao i život.

Perhaps the way to proceed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

Maybe I should find comfort in the utter absurdity of life and death. I can't outwit something that only plays by one rule: It will win in the end. No matter which way I choose to move, death will always come out the victor, so I should just try to enjoy the game of life as I'm playing it.

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.

We laughed hard at real stories of tragedy. It had to be real and it had to be funny. Somebody getting hurt was wonderful. Later, as the 2000 Year Old Man with Carl Reiner I explained the difference between comedy and tragedy: If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.