Quotes About Absurdity

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus . And rest assured that it works.

She was salted in the ladies' room?

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.

The fairytale belongs to the poor. I know of no fairytale which upholds the tyrant or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairytale is an absurdity.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't be scared of them.

I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

This would be really funny if it weren't happening to me.

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.

without sense or reason

Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape of the world, but instead a group of Hebrew slaves, it would have seemed the ultimate absurdity.

For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapacity of the people to govern themselves.

Isn't it enough you have poor Mitch here playing against bears?" They all looked at "poor Mitch," who seemed to be having the equivalent of an orgasm eating that slice of cherry pie.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.