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Quotes About Absurdity

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
~ George Orwell
Did not the statement, You do not exist, contain a logical absurdity?
~ George Orwell
For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing—nothing, nothing, nothing, like the Dadaists.
~ George Orwell
for instance, he would say that god had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
~ George Orwell
Hump my hump, My stumpy lumpy hump! Hump my dump, you lumpy slumpy dump! I'll dump your hump, and then just hump your dump, You lumpy frumply clump.
~ George Saunders
Credo quia absurdum
~ George Sheehan
We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity.
~ Georges Bataille
Twenty years later, the boy who used to stick himself with pens was standing under the sky in a for­eign street where he had never been, waiting for some unknown, impossible event. There were stars: an infinity of stars. It was absurd - absurd enough to make you scream; but it was a hostile absurdity.
~ Georges Bataille
Why would anyone steal a menu?
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
That is horse poop bingo." "What?
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah Harrell There is no use there is no use at all in smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual.
~ Gertrude Stein
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.
~ Tim Heidecker
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
~ Tavi Gevinson
Never put a sock in a toaster.
~ Eddie Izzard
You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
~ George Carlin
I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet?
~ Mark McKinney
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
~ Billy Wilder
the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop
~ Sarah Kane
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
It's a strange fucking world, and mostly the joke's on us.
~ Sarah Monette
Cuanto más materialmente inexplicables resultan la propia devoción y compromiso por una causa sagrada -es decir, cuanto más absurdas son-, mayor es la fe que otros depositan en ella y más compromiso genera esta fe por parte de ellos.
~ Scott Atran
But this is silly—we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six, and shoots fire upon command.
~ Scott Lynch
You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!
~ Scott Lynch