Quotes About Absurdity

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

Hij keek even naar de drol. Het uiteinde glansde van een slijmerige bloederige afscheiding. In het stuk krant hield hij hem als een sigaar tussen zijn vingers, bracht hem halverwege naar zijn mond en keek mismoedig met treurige hondeogen naar een denkbeeldige voorbijganger. 'Hebt u een vuurtje voor me,' vroeg hij somber.

She's got a squirrel in her drawers, you idiot. She's not on fire!

Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

Everything Jane Austen read came alive, but, at the same time, her natural empathy with those she encountered through her reading was kept in check by a keen sense of the ridiculous and of the potential absurdity of emotional display.

Ar vertÄ—jo mus sukurti, jie mes tokie prakeikti kvailiai?

The difference is minding. I mind the resultant moral dilemma of having no answers. I never forget the fucking questions. They're always there, accusing me of having no answers yet. If there are no answers there is no point: a terror of absurdity. Logic will force me to do things where desire hasn't a chance.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny."

To me, the perfect date consists of dinner, dancing, and sex with a girl who has no stomach or legs, but does have an overactive sex drive.

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Being crazy isn't enough.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

something which is absurd or logically contradictory, but which appears at first glance to be the result of sound reasoning.

Hubo así dos historias: una, de índole criminal, hecha de cárceles, torturas, prostituciones, robos, muertes e incendios; otra, de carácter escénico, hecha de necedades y fábulas para consumo de patanes".

We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption that the public knows what it wants-- indeed, that it is given sufficient information about what is available to make such a judgment. And then we jump, irresponsibly and absurdly, to the notion that there is a valid relationship between what the public wants and what it should want.

every now and then I do think life is a crock, there's no getting around it. Basically, it's really just awful. I do think it's stupidity that makes the world go round. And if you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

The fact that a proposition is absurd has never hindered those who wish to believe it.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. "Government money," of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.