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Quotes About Absurdity

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
~ Emil Cioran
On m'a soufflé mon dernier coin de soleil : C'est de la farce.
~ Émile Zola
it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...
~ Émile Zola 1840-1902
It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.
~ Emily Giffin
I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them, she said, but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.
~ Enid Blyton
We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.
~ Eoin Colfer
I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.
~ Eoin Colfer
This is going to be the most . . . what is that name—Goldberg? Yes, Rube Goldberg–inspired operation I have ever imagined. Are you sure that we do not need to trigger it all with a hamster on a wheel? I dunno, Jackie said. Do you have a hamster on board? Let me check the medical supplies . . .
~ Eric Flint
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Unasinous (adj.) Being equal to another in stupidity. If you are uncertain how one might use this word, just think of any two political parties. also
~ Ammon Shea
The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.
~ Amy Garvey
Cock Cheese?" Jackson had been busy with flying paperweights. Yikes—busy week! "Couldn't have happened to sweeter smegma.
~ Amy Lane
Kill me. Kill me now. "I, uhm, well, I haven't done anything that could get him pregnant?
~ Amy Lane
sorry Sartre, the hell is the bureaucrats .
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
~ Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
~ Anatole France
The simplest surrealist act consists in going into the street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd as much as possible. Anyone who has never felt the desire to deal thus with the current wretched principle of humiliation and stultification clearly belongs in this crowd himself with his belly at bullet height.
~ Andr Breton
If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton
~ Andre Breton
Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.
~ Andre Breton
Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.
~ Andre Breton
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
~ Andre Breton
to poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light
~ Andre Breton