Quotes About Absurdity

You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know

Barnabas the Barmy

Nothing you did made sense and nothing you'll ever do.

To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I … "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on." —P. Simple, Marryat

What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

Which was more fucked up than a one-legged nun doing power squats in a cucumber patch.

It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd to take off your shoe and hang it from a tree, but both are wonderful in their way—for I assure you, if you could see that tree, you'd think it wonderful, you'd approve, you'd think that in a wacko way something had been done, something worth doing.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

vie en elle-même ne comporte pas

In quel periodo cominciò a leggere Kafka. La prima volta provò una sensazione di freddo, di gelo insidioso; qualche ora dopo aver terminato Il Processo si sentiva ancora intorpidito, molle.

Es obvio que la vida no tiene sentido. Pero tampoco la muerte.

Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l'absurde, ça n'entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories.

He is as mad as a March hare.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

Alice in Wonderland

You can't negate negation so how can being be?

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

The fools here have pumpkins for heads, and seeds are not brains.