Quotes About Absurdity

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word "NOW" And you say, "For what reason?" And he says, "How?" And you say, "What does this mean?" And he screams back, "You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear and the children weren't.

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

LAVINIA: Oh Edward! The point is, that since I've been away I see that I've taken you much too seriously. And now I can see how absurd you are. EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in...how many?...thirty-two hours.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so.

Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

De cuando en cuando me ocurre vomitar un conejito.

Tan absurdo hablar porque sí, oírse hablar y saber que nunca se tiene demasiada razón. Ésa es otra, quizá la peor de nuestras cobardías. Los que valemos algo aquí no estamos ya seguros de nada. Hay que ser un animal para tener convicciones.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny.

El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento, ese así sea, esa sospechosa carencia de excepciones...

En el pan es de día -murmura Johnny, tapándose la cara-. Y yo me atrevo a tocarlo, a cortarlo en dos, a metérmelo en la boca. No pasa nada, ya se: eso es lo terrible. Te das cuenta de que es terrible que no pase nada? Cortas el pan, le clavas el cuchillo, y todo sigue como antes. Yo no comprendo, Bruno.

como siempre al acecho esperando algo, agazapado para dar uno de esos saltos absurdos de los que salimos todos lastimados.

Lo había dicho sin pensarlo, es decir que estaba más que pensado, venía de un territorio donde las palabras eran como los locos en la clínica, entes amenazadores o absurdos viviendo una vida propia y aislada, saltando de golpe sin que nada pudiera atajarlos.

En cambio te quedás (...) dándole vueltas a los falsos problemas, esperando no se qué. Si todo esto es absurdo hay que hacer algo para cambiarlo.