Quotes About Absurdity

How does the law stand, eh, Hawley?" "Nothing to be done there," said Mr. Hawley. "I looked into it for Sprague. You'd only break your nose against a damned judge's decision." "Pooh! no need of law," said Mr. Toller. "So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity.

A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?

With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.

Life is an endless journey through stupidity.

A vote for me is a vote completely thrown away.

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

Creo en el humanismo del ojo del culo.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

What about hanging ourselves? Hmm. It'd give us an erection. An erection! With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that? Let's hang ourselves immediately!

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

But is it true love, in the rectum? Thats what bothers me sometimes.

To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

He can't think without his hat.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.