Quotes About Absurdity

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

Himes's message was the cruelty, the destructiveness, the absurdity of black oppression. These messages may be found in all his books, but his best writings transcend message to express a comic exuberance, a vitality, a richness of black life that all the injustices and dreadful miseries he records cannot overcome.

In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable.

The reason is that there is no reason The issue is that there is no issue

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Cómo vamos a traer a un niño a este mundo inhumano?... En un mundo absurdo, inhumano y cruel... traer a un hijo era equivalente a cometer un infanticidio.

Najperverznije što je ljudsko bi?e dosada smislilo, ali i vidjelo, medo je na biciklu.

Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd.

There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

Es ist nichts so absurd, daß Gläubige es nicht glaubten. Oder Beamte täten.