Quotes About Absurdity

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.

A friendly voice seldom reaches me nowadays. I am alone now, absurdly alone; and in the course of my relentless and underground struggle against everything that human beings till now have revered and loved, I have imperceptibly become something like a lair myself - something hidden away, which people do not find, even if they go out and look for it. But people do not go out in search of such things…

Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us?

All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth.

Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?

The Circe of mankind, morality, has falsified all psychologica to its very foundations - has moralized it - to the point of the frightful absurdity that love is supposed to be 'unegoistic' . . . One has to be firmly set upon oneself, one has to stand bravely upon one's own two legs, otherwise, one can not love at all.

It was an absurd journey.

so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

A king without power is an absurdity.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a self-operating napkin.

You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.

You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that." Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm