Quotes About Absurdity

Bueno lo del matrimonio no está mal...Pero lo de hacer de padre es más duro. Papi ¿puedo beberme un zumo? ¿Qué tal un poco de agua, cielo? ¿Papi? ¿Sí? ¿Puedo beberme un zumo? ¿Qué tal un poco de agua, cielo? ¿Papi, puedo beberme un zumo? Vale cielo, ¿Quieres un zumo? No, da igual, beberé un poco de agua. Es como si estuviéramos todo el rato ensayando una puta obra de Beckett

Absurdity, only you are pure.

This is what happens when you put a moron in the intelligence unit: he gets even dumber.

I don't care if you pack it in fucking kryptonite, that lottery ticket ain't going up your ass.

His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.

There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

the carefully cultivated moral seriousness—strenuousness might be a better word—coexisted with a fantastical, mrs. jellyby–like absurdity. sontag's complicated and charismatic sexuality was part of this comic side of her life. the high-mindedness, the high-handedness, commingled with a love of gossip, drollery, and seductive acting out—and, when she was in a benign and unthreatened mood, a fair amount of ironic self-knowledge.

What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity.

sometimes people were simply stupid, and there was no fixing stupid.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as Things just happen. What the hell.

Bursar? Yes, Archchancellor? You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you? Me? No, Archchancellor. Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? What duck? AH. SORRY.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we'd been at all competent.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Now he knew: They were real. Who'd make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

What sort of person, said Salzella patiently, sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.

Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.

rational thoughts made out of insane components.

Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.