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Quotes About Absurdity

Could I just use the loo?" I asked the nice officer. "No." She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.
~ Rick Riordan
What in the world are you thinking? I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.
~ Rick Riordan
Hey, if the cow could jump over the moon, I didn't see why the sun couldn't jump over two cows.)
~ Rick Riordan
I try not to think," Leo admitted. "It interferes with being nuts.
~ Rick Riordan
YOU'RE GOING TO VACUUM UP THAT SQUIRREL!
~ Kate DiCamillo
There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Most everything is incredibly stupid.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
~ Kathleen Norris
Year after year On the monkey's face A monkey face
~ Kelly Link
Nothing is too ridiculous for modern politics.
~ Ken Follett
Lufa drgala mi jak pies srajacy pestkami brzoskwin
~ Ken Kesey
You damned moose.
~ Ken Kesey
Stupid to the power of stupid.
~ Kami Garcia
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
~ Erik Christian Haugaard
How cam'st thou to be the siege of this mooncalf?
~ William Shakespeare
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
~ William Wharton
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
~ Woody Allen
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
~ Woody Allen
Ah fuck, he's going to gnaw my arm off; I'm losing a limb. I can't go through life with one arm. I mean, fuck, I'm already a hideous rodent with no game," he said, sniffling. "I'll be a wobbly, off-balanced dipshit who lost his arm to an ass. And not even the good type of ass. "Are you crying?" "No, no, I have sweat in my eyes," he explained as the donkey's tongue kept licking his face.
~ Wrath James White
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumors to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.
~ xingjian gao
Absurdly, I punched it because nothing hurts a jellyfish more, nothing affronts their sense of dignity, than an underwater punch in the face.
~ David Nicholls
Bringing Marcus to Findlay would be like bringing a bazooka to a Tupperware party.
~ David Rosenfelt