Quotes About Absurdity

The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them? In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls! How absurd, too, were those overdressed women! One of them must have had a thousand roubles on her back, and all acquired at the expense of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the conscience of her neighbour.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all:

How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

Humanity is a comic role.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

Laughing on what is not funny is the most craziest thing

Like most of my predecessors, I have hunted the unicorn chiefly in libraries, realizing the delightful absurdity of the task quite as fully as any one could point it out to me.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Cómo se puede tomar al mundo en serio, siendo el mundo tan ridículo?

There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become the sardonic bark of disbelief. Absurdity is the new sublime

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE is dense, epigrammatic, and of a deceptive clarity. It looks like a short essay, without technical jargon, cryptic sometimes to a fault. In it, Camus spoke of the world, history, and of his life.

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

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

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, detective independiente, se tomó el cuerpo con las manos y se estrechó en un autoabrazo solitario, en la oscuridad lunar y la lluvia. «No contaban con mi astucia», se dijo, citando al Chapulín Colorado. Su reserva de frases absurdas era enorme.

Martín Luis Guzmán contará que se creó un impasse, que el grupito de hombres a caballo con la fila de tiradores ante ellos ni se iba ni se retiraba. Se miraban y se apuntaban, observaban a sus mutuos jefes. Hasta en la tragedia hay espacio para el absurdo.

I took biology two years in a row just to eat the specimens.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!