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Quotes About Absurdity

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
~ Rube Goldberg
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
~ Harland Williams
I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
~ Chuck Klosterman
So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
~ Kurt Braunohler
Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.
~ John Lloyd
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
~ Ingmar Bergman
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.
~ Miriam Shor
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
~ George Santayana
'Danger Girl' can be ridiculous, but sometimes it's funny.
~ Megan Fox
When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
~ Doug Liman
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
~ Bernard Levin
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
~ Junius
People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.
~ Rick Bragg
Not only that, if he double-bogeyed out, he'd break 100, which would be on a par with a lobster climbing out of the tank at Jimmy's Seafood Grill, taking the stage and whistling the entire score of Cats. "Gentlemen, we
~ Rick Reilly
I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.
~ Rick Riordan
Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.
~ Ring Lardner
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
~ Rita Mae Brown
In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb, Softly, softly, catchee monkey ; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
~ Robert Brault
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
~ Robert Jordan
Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.
~ Robert Jordan