Quotes About Absurdity

Indeed there must have been a very deep-seated dissatisfaction with life, a very intense thirst of heart, and an almost absolute poverty of thought, to secure the acceptance of the Christian absurdity, the most audacious and monstrous of all religious absurdities.

Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd.

in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

Alfred] Jarry's teaching could be summarized thus: every man is capable of showing his contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the universe by making his own life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Here I am, 5 o'clock in the morning, stuffing breadcrumbs up a dead bird's butt!

He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

Men are by nature are unequal and those who seek equality among unequal's seeks absurdity.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.