Quotes About Absurdity

Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a  new function of brain is established.

cela faisait sans doute bien longtemps qu'elle ne craignait plus l'irruption de l'absurde dans la géométrie du bon sens.

Ma noi non possiamo accorgerci di quanto sia assurdo perché come rettili di palude conosciamo quel mondo, e la palude per noi é la normalità Per questo siamo in grado di metabolizzare incredibili dosi di infelicità scambiandole per il doveroso corso delle cose [...]

Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airport.

I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I've got a front row seat to the absurdity." —A Colorado travel nurse

Life! Don't talk to me about life.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

He half expected to receive a rocket-propelled suppository at any moment, but none came.

rocket-propelled suppository

Shared belief in an absurdity is a much better indicator of loyalty than shared belief in the truth. And it's a much better way to create group cohesion. If a leader asks you to believe that the sky is blue, and you do, what does that prove? The truth is easy. But if he requires his followers to believe the sky is green, they quickly distance themselves from non-believers and become firmly united in a shared delusion.

actually exist like a racial or religious community. It is a form of absurdity. For even on its own terms this composition is wildly unsustainable and contradictory. Gay men and gay women have almost nothing in common. It may be too pedestrian to even mention, but gay men and lesbians do not always form the warmest of relationships.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.