Quotes About Absurdity

Comprendí que el mundo no ve el interior de las personas, y que poco le importan las esperanzas, penas y sueños que albergamos bajo una máscara de piel y de hueso. Es así de sencillo, cruel y absurdo.

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo...

I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.

Therefore, simple syllogism: human language is futile and stupid. Meaning furthermore that human narratives are futile and stupid.

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

In other words, the square root of fuckall is fuckall.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

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

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly." -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

already she drew in the sand with her big toe: King Solomon, as though he were a rubber ball, an apocalyptic, bearded herring, an imperial walking-stick, an amalgam, half chicken and half Solomon.

To kill one individual, that is, to subtract fifty years to the total sum of human lives, was criminal. But to subtract fifty million years was not considered criminal. Really, isn't that absurd?

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

A human being is made as absurdly as these preposterous "apartments"; human heads are opaque, with only tiny windows in them—the eyes.

he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men's desires were, or the absurdity of such greed.

It had never occurred to Teacher Gu that he and his wife were to pay for the bullet that would take their daughter's life, but why question such absurdity when it was not his position to ask?