Quotes About Absurdity

Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.

Don't be ridiculous, man, said Ridcully, there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling. Yeah? Then what's that you've got there? I'm a giant, said Casanunda. Giants are a lot bigger. I've been ill.

Look out! He's got a daisy!

one of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats.

If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato

So he said to young Sam: if you lose your cow you should report this to the Watch under Demonic & Farmyard Animals (Lost) Act of 1804. They will swing into action with keenness and speed. Your cow will be found. If it has been impersonating other animals, it may be arrested. If you are a stupid person, do not look for your cow yourself. Never try to milk a chicken. It hardly ever works.

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse.

Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!

He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.

Wrong. Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist... the idea that such as he could belong to anything.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that he tried again. At least we imprisoned our mistakes. Your god permits his to roam free. At a mere few thousand years old your creation myths are far more absurd than ours.

You're off your fucking rocker!" "You have no idea. I don't have a rocker anymore. I don't even have a fucking porch to put it on. And there certainly aren't slow paddling fans or magnolia trees blossoming above aforementioned missing chair.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Life is funny; it really is.

les esprits prométhéens croient être des hasards se mouvant librement dans un vide et capables de se « créer » eux-mêmes, le tout dans le cadre d'une existence dépourvue de sens ; le monde est absurde, paraît-il, mais on ne se rend pas compte - et cela est typique — de l'absurdité d'admettre l'avènement, au sein d'un monde absurde, d'un être censé capable de constater cette absurdité.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind and sensible he may be.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.