Quotes About Absurdity

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con el mundo es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. El absurdo es divino.

I, who have eyes that are only for seeing, See an absence of meaning in all things.

La manía por el absurdo y la paradoja es la alegría animal de los tristes.

And I who am saying all this – why am I writing this book? Because I realize it's imperfect. Dreamed, it would be perfection; written, it becomes imperfect; that's why I'm writing it. And above all else, because I advocate uselessness, absurdity, – I write this book to lie to myself, to be unfaithful to my own theory.

everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.

If there's no earth in heaven, then let's not bother with heaven. Far better for everything to turn out to be nothing and for this plotless novel to end there.

The tragic futility of life.

El amor más grande es, por tanto, la muerte o el olvido, o la renuncia, todos los amores que son otros tantos absurdiandos del amor.

Do not make the infantile mistake of asking the meaning of things and words. Nothing has any meaning.

Tudo isto é quanto a vida vale: homens e mulheres, amores supostos e vaidades factícias, subterfúgios da digestão e do esquecimento, gente remexendo-se, como bichos quando se levanta uma pedra, sob o grande pedregulho abstrato do céu azul sem sentido.

I lift my eyes and look at the stars, which make no sense at all.

Is it life?' he answered.'I would rather be without it' he said, ' for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, [...] It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like red-bars and foreign bacon.

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

Stupid can't fix stupid.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.