Quotes About Absurdity

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

Analogies drawn from the inspection of hen's eggs foundered on the objection that man was not a chicken.

Being dead is absurd. It's the silliest situation you'll find yourself in. Your limbs are floppy and uncooperative. Your mouth hangs open. Being dead is unsightly and stinky and embarrassing, and there's not a damn thing to be done about it.

The truth of the matter is that we are careening into our darkest moment yet, and we look ridiculous doing it.

It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

Did I just kill someone? You can't kill a dead person, Callum said. Makes no sense.

The theoretical purpose of that grotesque absurdity is to establish a moral inversion: to make the initiation of force moral, and resistance to force immoral—and thus to obliterate the right of self-defense. The immediate practical purpose is to foster the activities of the lowest political breed: the provocateurs, who commit acts of force and place the blame on their victims.

Perhaps there is nothing to be understood, perhaps understanding is simply not to be found, is not applicable to such a thing. But it is hard, hard, not to try to understand, even for me, who accepts that all is nothing, that sense does not exist.

Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

God. That bastard, he doesn't exist. —Samuel Beckett

Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat.

The material would indeed have to be handled carefully and with an awareness of how easily it might descend into riotous. Pain would have to be wrenched out of it; the reader would have to feel with the characters. Not only intellectual content but levels of the ambiguous would have to woven through less Galaxies become merely an attack upon the technological, a curse against the absurdity. Nothing, surely, could be further from the intent of the novel.

Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.

Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed.

Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.

we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world.

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

We can turn everything into hell with just enough stupidity