Quotes About Absurdity

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Si la vida de una persona está sujeta a sus circunstancias, sus memorias, sus aptitudes y sus tendencias, es difícil encontrar un espacio para la libertad, pues parece sometida a una estructura determinista. Pero si la persona, para tomar decisiones libres, pudiera ser insensible a su entorno y a su pasado, entonces viviría una vida sometida al azar. ¿Sería una vida basada en la libertad o más bien una existencia sumergida en el absurdo?

La melancolía le permite a Kierkegaard ser él mismo, Convierte a la persona en el corazón de la realidady rechaza toda mediación entre el individuo y el mundo que lo rodea, un mundo que es absurdo y, además, aburrido. En 1845 escribió: "¿Cuál es mi enfermedad? Melancolía. ¿Dónde se asienta esta enfermedad? En el poder de la imaginación".

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

He was perfectly conscious of the absurdity of his behavior, but he was incapable of changing it. This absurdity was an essential part of him. It was probably the most basic element of his personality.

Haikus are easy. But sometimes they don't make sense. Refrigerator.

You can't fix stupid!

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go in.

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It's the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.

Ah ! Dostum ! Ä°nan?n bana, bu dünya asl?nda tamamen insanlarla taÅŸak geçmek için yarat?lm?? koskocaman bir kand?rmacad?r.

On en a donc rigolé comme des cornichons.

Wat het leven in feite zo dodelijk vermoeiend maakt is misschien wel de geweldige inspanning die we op moeten brengen om twintig, veertig jaar en nog wel langer redelijk te blijven, om niet gewoon volkomen jezelf te zijn, dat wil zeggen abject, wreed en absurd.

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd.

Entre el penis i les matemàtiques, senyor Baryton, no hi ha res! Res! Hi ha el buit!

Siamo o non siamo su un'invisibile trottolina, cui fa da ferza un fil di sole, su un granellino di sabbia impazzito che gira e gira e gira, senza saper perché, senza pervenir mai a destino, come se ci provasse gusto a girar così, per farci sentire ora un po' più di caldo, ora un po' più di freddo, e per farci morire – spesso con la coscienza d'aver commesso una sequela di piccole sciocchezze – dopo cinquanta o sessanta giri?