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Quotes About Absurdity

That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?
~ Joe Hill
there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.
~ Joe Hill
Somewhere, a toad farted ominously.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
He's dumb as a bag of fresh horseshit
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Minden hÅ'stett forrása a háború, a legbalgább dolog a világon.
~ Johan Huizinga
MEFISTOFELE Non posso darvi tutti i torti. So bene che cos'è questa dottrina. Leggi e giurisprudenza si trasmettono per eredità come un male perenne, si trascinano di generazione in generazione e passano inavvertitamente da un luogo a un altro. La ragione finisce nell'assurdità, il beneficio in un danno.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
~ Camille Flammarion
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
~ Michel Foucault
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
~ Don Marquis
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
~ Stephen King
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
~ Albert Camus
George the ThirdOught never to have occurred.One can only wonderAt so grotesque a blunder.
~ E. C. Bentley
because human existence is ultimately meaningless.
~ E. Lockhart
Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmica. Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición
~ E.M Cioran
Why fear the nothing that is in store for us when it is no different from the nothing that preceded us?
~ E.M. Cioran
because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn't matter—existence just doesn't seem to make any sense.
~ Ed Gorman
Yossarian knew that you had to be crazy to fly combat. But you couldn't fly combat if you were crazy. If you turned yourself in as crazy so that you couldn't fly combat that would clearly be the act of a sane person, so you couldn't really be crazy and you must fly combat. Yossarian knew all this and he recognized it as the "catch." It was Catch-22.
~ Ed Rasimus
Imagine learning all the great wisdom of the world just so that you can get a job. What an absurdity. We should be learning all the great wisdom of the world in order to become wise.
~ Eddie Campbell
I am an evil Giraffe.
~ Eddie Izzard
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
~ Eddie Izzard