Quotes About Absurdity

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

It's absurd to see people who have spent a lifetime standing against racism, being accused of racism, by racists.

For me, watching people get out of control, and be indulgent and dramatic was very silly.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Pourquoi cet absurde besoin de savoir ? Et si les hommes veulent être heureux, qu'ils se chargent eux-mêmes de leur bonheur !

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off.

I have a grand piano in my living room, can you imagine the absurdity? I don't even play. Perhaps they know I might entertain dear Noël." She spoke of her friend Noël Coward.

But alpacas don't lay eggs!

I would miss him. He always made so little sense.

If religion cannot find a meaning for human suffering, humanity is in major trouble. All healthy religion shows you what to do with your pain. Great religion shows you what to do with the absurd, the tragic, the nonsensical, the unjust. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it. If

This new coherence, a unified field inclusive of the paradoxes, is precisely what gradually characterizes a second-half-of-life person. It feels like a return to simplicity after having learned from all the complexity. Finally, at last, one has lived long enough to see that "everything belongs,"4 even the sad, absurd, and futile parts.

Most of nature seems to totally accept major loss, gross inefficiency, mass extinctions, and short life spans as the price of life at all. Feeling that sadness, and even its full absurdity, ironically pulls us into the general dance, the unified field, an ironic and deep gratitude for what is given—with no necessity and so gratuitously. All beauty is gratuitous. So whom can we blame when it seems to be taken away? Grace seems to be at the foundation of everything.

Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. Let me get this straight. Your table ran away ... because you polished him with windex.