Quotes About Absurdity

In short, man was often just plain stupid.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth.

More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

Those who can make you believe absurdities,' said Voltaire, 'can make you commit atrocities.' By contrast, my caution cannot do any such thing.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

I appear to be standing in a dead dog," said Tommy Oblivion. "And not in a good way.

He handed her a tissue, but she didn't know what a tissue was, so she put it in her mouth and tried to eat it.

Saw you by the Dumpster, eating a pile of what appeared to be human vomit. You seemed like someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. Not sure if you're male or female, but either way I'd love to smell your genitals. Let me know if you're intrigued.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.