Quotes About Absurdity

There will be nonsense in it!

can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next verse.' 'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How could he turn them out with his nose, you know?' 'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 'Go on with the next verse,' the

Pero yo no quiero ir adonde hay locos -dijo Alicia. - Oh, esos es inevitable -dijo el Gato-; aquí todos estamos locos. Yo estoy loco. Tu estás loca. - ¿Y usted cómo sabe que yo estoy loca? -preguntó Alicia. - Tienes que estarlo -dijo el Gato -; si no, no habrías venido aquí.

I don't much care where-" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," "so long as I get somewhere," "Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough"/ "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."/ Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! The love-gift of a fairy-tale. ?Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass?

Ah, isso é inevitável - disse o Gato. — Somos todos malucos aqui. Eu sou maluco. Você é maluca. — Por que diz que sou maluca? - indagou Alice. — Só pode ser - disse o Gato, — ou não teria vindo parar aqui.

O por el contrario, si fue así, pudo ser, y si así fuera, sería; pero como no es, no es. ¡Es pura lógica!

How do you know I'm mad? said Alice You must be, said the cat, or you wouldn't have come here.

Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats. You are officially the most annoying unreal creature ever. Meet a lot of us, do you?

Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all the rules and avoid all the perils but still fall into some absurd situation at which their neighbors and the spirits themselves had to laugh and not furtively either but with great guffaws. The world was tragic, and fine men and strong animals died arbitrarily, but it was also so preposterous that sometimes the crests of mountains seemed to bend together in laughter.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Descrivere ogni cosa in modo scientifico sarebbe possibile, ma assurdo. Non avrebbe senso, sarebbe come descrivere una sinfonia di Beethoven in base alla variazione della pressione d'onda

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

It's an absurdity. An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-moron work - go mad, or start smashing things up.