Quotes About Absurdity

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "right here, officer". Later, I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars, "Get out of my driveway!

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.

That the dumbest shit ive ever seen

I think that the more theoretical knowledge you obtain, the more multifarious and kaleidoscopic your view becomes of the reality that lurks behind concepts. This reality is so insatiably rich that a fixed determinant of a concept's position must simply be an absurdity.

Only hours before, I had been poignantly balancing on the rim of a terrible abyss, my heart and head full of profundity; now I was living in a nightmare of farce.

I wonder what absurdity of fate had cast each of our souls down in the environment that the other desired.

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

I don't suppose you have a rocket powered helicopter hidden in your bra?

M? întreb chiar dac? istoria nu ne apare atât de absurd? tocmai din cauza acestei confisc?ri monstruoase în profitul unui singur fel de a vedea lumea, a unui singur comportament, care nu poate fi decât limitat ÅŸi, deci, fals...

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the "avant-garde" - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.

By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants . . .

he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.

to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Lumea asta nu va muri de o bomb? atomic?, aÅŸa cum spun ziarele, ci va muri de râs, de banalitate, f?când o glum? din tot ÅŸi din toate ÅŸi, în plus, o glum? proast?.

Este mundo no se morirá de una bomba atómica como dicen los diarios, se morirá de risa, de banalidad, haciendo un chiste de todo, y además un chiste malo." ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Let's shake hands and be friends, but please, I beg you, stop farting like that, because I'm beginning to hallucinate and in my dreams I see Comrade Joseph Stalin doing the Charleston.

La realidad del mundo empezaba a ser más grotesca que las pantomimas de los payasos y los osos danzarines. Pronto, nadie nos necesitaría. El siglo XX se había convertido en el gran circo de la historia.