Quotes About Absurdity

This is necessary nonsense.

The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.

ALL GREAT DEEDS AND ALL GREAT THOUGHTS HAVE A RIDICULOUS BEGINNING. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

There are times when I would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

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IT IS TRUE, THAT WHICH I HAVE REVEALED TO YOU; THERE IS NO GOD, NO UNIVERSE, NO HUMAN RACE, NO EARTHLY LIFE, NO HEAVEN, NO HELL. IT IS ALL A DREAM—A GROTESQUE AND FOOLISH DREAM. NOTHING EXISTS BUT YOU. AND YOU ARE BUT A THOUGHT—A VAGRANT THOUGHT, A USELESS THOUGHT, A HOMELESS THOUGHT, WANDERING FORLORN AMONG THE EMPTY ETERNITIES!

Colocó a los personajes en las situaciones más extraordinarias, les hizo realizar los actos más sorprendentes y puso en sus bocas el más extraño lenguaje. Sin embargo, no hay modo de poder describir el capítulo. Era de una locura simétrica; era de un absurdo artístico, y llevaba notas explicativas al pie que igualaban en rareza al texto.

Les jeux son fait. Nous sommes fucked.

This is ridiculous. I don't belong here. No one belongs here.

A mockery of meaning where meaning had never been needed before.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

It would have been hilarious if I wasn't about to die. It was still a little hilarious.

Here's another joke: "She calls me up and says, 'Get over here. There's nobody home.' So I get over there, and guess what. There's nobody home.

Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy is not a mere joke but is something to think over. We shall fo well to remember occasionally that by our strolling we can fall into a well whereby we may not reach ground for quite some time.

On ne peut entreprendre de définir l'être sans tomber dans cette absurdité: car on ne peut définir un mot sans commencer par celui-ci, c'est, soit qu'on l'exprime ou qu'on le sous-entende. Donc pour définir l'être, il faudrait dire c'est, et ainsi employer le mot défini dans sa définition.