Quotes About Absurdity

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

You are pooped and demoralised," read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

No era la vida algo absurdo, una representación dramática que de súbito se volvía farsa?

No, life had ceased to be logical, and therefore nothing was absurd. It was life: one had to accept it as it was or kill oneself.

L'Occident a vendu des armes aux deux camps et nous, nous avons été assez bêtes pour rentrer dans ce jeu cynique...huit ans de guerre pour rien! Alors maintenant l'état donne des noms de martyrs aux rues pour flatter les familles des victimes. Ills trouvent peut-être ainsi un sens à toute cette absurdité.

I'm going to die and my son farts in my face... what a waste!

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose design statement was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Love is at once always absurd and never absurd; the more grotesque its form, the more love itself confers a certain dignity on the circumstances of those it torments.

When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Dying is easy; parking is impossible.