Quotes About Absurdity

You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

If tragedy is about the fact that people are mortal, then comedy is about the fools we make of ourselves on the way to the grave.

It's the old elephant hunter joke, where a guy asserts he's the local elephant hunter, you respond that there aren't any elephants around there, and he, of course, says 'Yeah, see how good I am?

Dünyada ?imdi onunla yan yana bulunmamam?z kadar mant?ks?z ve lüzumsuz ne vard?r acaba?

the theory that if New York punk was about art, and London punk about politics, L.A. punk was about pop culture, TV, and absurdity.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

For is there anything so absurd as to delight in many inanimate things, like public office, fame, and stately buildings, or dress and personal adornment, and to take little or no delight in a sentient being endowed with virtue and capable of loving, and — if I may so term it — of loving back?

From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.

Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

One time I tried to marry a chicken.

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

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.

El caos era el vacío sin sentido de la vida cotidiana

But the time of mourning is always the perfect time for nonsense.

And of course she had no idea what the actual member itself looked like, apart from the sisters' surreptitious and intense study of the Elgin Marbles. If it were rather like a piece of liver in texture then it might do well with bacon. That was when she realized the appalling absurdity of what she was doing, coming up with a menu for raw . . . raw cock, that's what the stable lads had called it.

Make certain you tell them you are not my sister. Your sister? Why should anyone believe such an absurdity? she said hotly, shaken by the very notion. He touched her then. His elegant, pale hand reached out and touched her chin, tilting her face up to his. He looked at her carefully, his dark green eyes revealing only cursory interest. I cannot imagine, he said after a moment.