Quotes About Absurdity

but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

ALOGY  (A'LOGY)   n.s. Unreasonableness; absurdity.Dict.

ABSONANT  (A'BSONANT)   adj.[See ABSONOUS.]Contrary to reason, wide from the purpose.   ABSONOUS  (A'BSONOUS)   adj.[absonus, Lat. ill-sounding.]Absurd, contrary to reason.

it was probably a good thing that Foster and Laura Speakman couldn't reproduce, because both of them were fucking nuts.

Ik begreep opeens dat er geen tussenweg was tussen niet-bestaan en deze weemakende overdadigheid. Als je bestond, moest je *bestaan tot op dat punt*, tot aan de verschimmeling, het zwellen, tot aan de obsceniteit. In een andere wereld behouden cirkels, melodieën, hun zuivere, strakke lijnen. Maar het bestaan is een aftakelingsproces.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.

humor is a violation of straight-line thinking. Humor

Even the government couldn't have concocted such an obscene clusterfuck. So this one was on God or the universe, whichever way you wanted to assign the blame.

Recibimos con docilidad toda primera impresión, porque el hombre está hecho de tal modo, que llega a persuadirse de que son verdad las cosas más absurdas, pero desde luego se graban en él tan profundamente, que infeliz del que pretenda destruirlas o borrarlas.

Es bleibt doch endlich nach wie vor Mit ihren hunderttausend Possen Die Welt ein einzig großer Tor

Vedi, io non riesco a capacitarmi che il genere umano abbia così poco cervello da rendersi ridicolo in modo tanto volgare.

He's poodlishly ridiculous.

Between the idea and the experience there seems to be a certain gulf fixed; we exert all our strength to cross it, in vain. In spite of this, we strive constantly to overcome this gap by means of reason, understanding, imagination, faith, feeling, madness, and, if nothing else will serve, with absurdity.

It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

How to defend yourself against a banana

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries

I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

She slipped from her tall chair (why don't we remember living in a world where everything was absurdly outsize, tables and chairs and spoons, door knobs too high to reach, too fat to grasp?) and went to look.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive