Quotes About Absurdity

You have to suffer because things are meaningless but that's a small price to pay for being able to be completely useless

la vida tiene momentos altamente incoherentes, tiene sus capítulos absurdos y unos pasajes que un novelista no escribiría ni en su mañana más delirante

How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.

They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.

I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the world, and not at someone in particular — when some particularly absurd thing happens, not just someone falling down.

Tata? Mm? Da smo slonovi, bili bismo pet slonova. Da. Blesavo, je l' da? Da ,jeste. Zamisli to! Da. Odli?no Bertolde.Lepo.

Goddammit!" he shouted. "Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?" "You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog." COURTESY

People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that's who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

Surely, you must be joking," Aech said. "No, I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley.

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

Needless to say, taken literally, this is just as absurd. For an adult organism the energy content is as stationary as the material content. Since, surely, any calorie is worth as much as any other calorie, one cannot see how a mere exchange could help.

Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat.

Living is abnormal.

The words seemed so ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

For every un-universe, then, an un-philosophy that must also negate itself.

The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer's tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche's laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran's sleep). Crying, laughing, sleeping — what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?

Is there yet another meaning of "black" beyond this? There is, but it is a difficult thought to think, and nearly impossible to know, though it does exist (actually it doesn't exist, though the thought of its not-existing does).

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.