Quotes About Absurdity

This horror and all these useless gestures, this grotesque adventure is ours. We must live it. Death is absurd also.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.

She doesn't ask if he's okay, because from now on that question will carry a weight of painful absurdity.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

But sometimes I wonder how much of my life is real and how much of it is rigged. Because half the things that happen to me are so ridiculous, I wonder if someone else is pulling the strings

I'm doing this because I'm insane. Doesn't my mad cackle make me sound insane?

That bastard's brain waves had infiltrated my scrotum, reconnecting my vas deferens

is nothing more liberating than playing an illogical game where only you understand all of the rules.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.

As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere

Ah, crap! Isn't Wrong worth the same as Right?

Nothing comic isn't serious.

He turns to go—and that's when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it's slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It's a surrealist vision of hell. What's surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Anyone who has been privileged to witness the purée into which 170,000 bison (or 680,000 bisons' hooves) can turn eighteen motor cars has a pretty good idea of the concept of nothingness.