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Quotes About Absurdity

Kinder sollen nur reden, wenn die Hühner pissen.
~ Julio Cortazar
Lo que llamamos absurdo es nuestra ignorancia. Los Premios, 1960 What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960
~ Julio Cortazar
Estoy de acuerdo en que mucho de lo que me rodea es absurdo, pero probablemente damos ese nombre a lo que no comprendemos todavía.
~ Julio Cortazar
Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas. Cortázar, Julio (2014-02-26). Rayuela (edición conmemorativa): 50 Edición conmemorativa (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Locations 3018-3019). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. Kindle Edition.
~ Julio Cortazar
Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito», se repitió Oliveira.
~ Julio Cortazar
The absurdity is that it doesn't look like an absurdity. The absurdity is that you go out in the morning and find a bottle of milk on the doorstep and you are at peace because the same thing happened to you yesterday and will happen again tomorrow.
~ Julio Cortazar
Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas.
~ Julio Cortázar.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
~ Junius
danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass.
~ Junot Diaz
Didn't anyone ask you where your parents are?" "They asked. Especially about my parents." "What did you tell them?" "I said I ate them." "Jesus, Rosa.
~ Justine Larbalestier
How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!
~ Kakuz? Okakura
You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.
~ Kami Garcia
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
~ Adam West
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
~ Bill Nye
Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke.
~ Ryan Trecartin
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
~ Jennifer Saunders
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
~ Joss Whedon
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
~ Francis Bacon
There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
~ Francis Bacon
MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause.
~ Francis Grose
Ordinary reality and human life is probably the most extraordinary development of all spaces and times. It shows and proves how the greatest fantasy and absurdity can be the only reality for billions of souls. The great gift we receive from our human reality, when we are ready to accept it, is the capacity to follow its example, allowing all our fantasies, even the most absurd, to become real.
~ Franco Santoro
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
~ Frank Portman