Quotes About Absurdity

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

It is of course the height of absurdity to blame them. But this is to misunderstand the rules under which love operates. It is because we cannot scream at the forces who are really responsible that we get angry with those we are sure will best tolerate us for blaming them. We take it out on the very nicest, most sympathetic, most loyal people in the vicinity, the ones least likely to have harmed us, but the ones most likely to stick around while we pitilessly rant at them.

It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or died. One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. The next day it might be you who is shot through the head. You could play the game perfectly and still lose, so why bother playing at all?

Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

The meaning of life,' wrote Kafka, reputedly, 'is that it stops.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai della vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.

Dio mio possibile che non riuscisse a pensare ad altro? la mente era fissa lì, sempre sullo stesso argomento tormentoso, e all'altezza del palazzo di Brera lo prese lo sgomento perché in questo preciso istante ha capito di essere completamente infelice senza nessuna possiblità di rimedio, una cosa assurda e idiota, tuttavia così vera e intensa che non trovava più requie.

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce.

No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.

Now he's standing beside five other cops watching the chimp climb up the wall of the Museum of Man. That's what I need tonight, Chris thinks, a chimp with a firearm and a sense of irony.

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce.

Becketts work is an embarrassment to the Void.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.