Quotes About Absurdity

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--but not for us.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

Es gibt unendlich viel Hoffnung, nur nicht für uns.

It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing himself. At the same time, though, he asked himself, this time looking at it from his own point of view, what reason he could have to do so. Because those two were sitting there in the next room and had taken his breakfast, perhaps?

Gece gündüz, uykuda olsun, uyan?k olsun, vücuduna saplanm?? bir oku ta??mak demek. Çekilir ÅŸey deÄŸil bu.

I am dead and despise anyone who isn't

WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.

È ridicolo come ti sei bardato per questo mondo.

Kafka regarded the end of The Metamorphosis- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as unreadable. He also wrote in his diary that he found itbad, but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.

Absurdo, completamente absurdo, una misma se confunde cuando juega con esos absurdos

Kafka, it seems, is at his best when he fails.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He

Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

the uh fucking spine quote from metamorphosis

do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position.  They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. 

The Hunter has been turned into a butterfly. Do not laugh.

What is it that makes you all behave as though you were real? Are you trying to make me believe I'm unreal, standing here absurdly on the green pavement? You, sky, surely it's a long time since you've been real, and as for you, Ringplatz, you never have been real.

We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God's head. — Franz Kafka, quoted in Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings . (Belknap Press; First Edition edition December 1, 1996)

beware of thinking of life as commonplace, if by commonplace you mean monotonous, simple, petty. Life is merely terrible;

die anderen ist. Und daß es so

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.'