Quotes About Absurdity

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe....No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

One man's act of absurdity may be another's substitute for solace.

Kalau Tuhan tidak ada, betapa absurdnya semua ini jadinya. Bagaimana mungkin manusia bisa menahankan kemonotonan laut dan ketiadaan emosinya yang kejam. Kehidupan mereka yang diikat salib dan tersapu ombak sekedar menjadi sebuah drama absurd. Dan misionaris menghabiskan 3 tahun menyeberangi laut untuk datang ke negeri ini, betapa sia-sianya ilusi mereka.

You are out of your freaking skull! Maybe, but is that relevant?

Lately I feel that I'm living in a badly written, badly directed foreign movie that's running on late-night TV in black-and-white with lots of static and inadequate subtitles.

Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger)

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)

Who the hell thought of that? Probably the same sick SOB who saw a chicken shoot an egg out of its nether region and said, "Hey, y'all, I think I'm gonna dry that up and eat it. Wish me luck. If I get sick from it, someone fetch a doctor."' – Sundown

I have great moments of epic stupidity like everyone else.

Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo "Beg pardon?" Cadegan "You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo

What the hell am I doing in Nashville? What – you want me to shoot Minnie Pearl? (Steele)

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

If I were a politician, I could prove that monkeys talk.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing.

That to fancy the words of consecration perform what the papists call transubstantiation, by converting the wafer and wine into the real and identical body and blood of Christ, which was crucified, and which afterward ascended into heaven, is too gross an absurdity for even a child to believe, who was come to the least glimmering of reason; and that nothing but the most blind superstition could make the Roman Catholics put a confidence in anything so completely ridiculous.