Quotes About Absurdity

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.

And his dick looks like a hot dog that got hit with a sledgehammer and sewn back together by a blind lady." "Thanks, Port." "You're welcome, D.

Un sentimiento de absurdo, tétrico y grotesco: he aquí la única verdad estúpida que había quedado después de todas sus experiencias. La vida entera parecía no tener más significado que un puñado de arena. Bastaba con abrir los dedos para que no quedara nada.

The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable.

it is not just a matter of feeling—how can this go right, what can I do to make this right, but there is also this other thing—that you think, life is truly absurd, and there really is no meaning, only objects of various size colliding in space, if they are so lucky as to be near each other.

Was hatte er in dieser Stadt, in diesem verrückt gewordenen Steinbaukasten, zu suchen? Blumigen Unsinn schreiben, damit die Menschheit noch mehr Zigaretten rauchte als bisher? Den Untergang Europas konnte er auch dort abwarten, wo er geboren war. Das hatte er davon, dass er sich einbildete, der Globus drehe sich nur, solange er ihm zuschaue. Dieses lächerliche Bedürfnis, anwesend zu sein!

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

En esta guerra se hacen muchas tonterías —dijo Agustín—. En esta guerra la idiotez no tiene límites.

De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.

Und könnte [das Ich] eine Leere, eine Losgelassenheit, eine disparate, gar absurde Schranke auch noch spüren, wenn keine Bewegung in ihm wäre, die an die Schranke stößt? […] Die Akte des Überschreitens selber lassen sich jedenfalls nicht nihilisieren, nicht einmal dort, wo die härteste Gegenutopie: der Tod jedes irdische Dunkel so unermesslich überbietet, unterbietet.

He seemed to give the changes his same, kind recognition--to accept them because they had to be only of the time being, even to love them, even to laugh sometimes at their absurdity

Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don't know why. They are puppets, undone. In short, they represent modern man. Their situation is not tragic, since it has no relation to a higher order. Instead, it's ridiculous, laughable, and derisory.

Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.