Quotes About Absurdity

Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

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

Il mondo non verrà distrutto da una bomba atomica, come dicono i giornali, ma da una risata, da un eccesso di banalità che trasformerà la realtà in una barzelletta di pessimo gusto.

Ce monde ne mourra pas d'une bombe atomique, comme le disent les journaux, il mourra de rire, de banalité, en transformant tout en farce et, de plus, en mauvaise farce.

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.

Si la vida no era un sueño era al menos una pantomima donde el cruel absurdo del relato fluía siempre entre bambalinas, y no había entre cielo y suelo venganza mayor ni más efectiva que al esculpir la belleza y el ingenio a golpe de palabras para encontrar el sentido en el sinsentido de las cosas.

cualquiera que aspire a conservar su sano juicio necesita de un lugar en el mundo en el que pueda y desee perderse. Ese lugar, el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.

You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?

When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation.

Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

El arte, ese gran niño nacido muerto.

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

Wenn Man an den Tod denkt, alles ist lächerlich. (When one thinks of death, everything is ridiculous).

The Loser proceeds to narrate the same story he tells in virtually every one of his plays and novels: a story of frustrated ambition and (incestuous) love, suicide, and the generally grotesque absurdity of existence. But

But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas.

Hayat tasavvurunun yüce sanat? gibi yaÅŸaman?n ve var olman?n daha yüce sanat?n?n da alaya al?nd???, kabare gibi bir dünyada ya??yoruz biz. Felsefe kabare gibi. Din kabare gibi. SavaÅŸ, devasa bir ceset y???n?, sayg?deÄŸer beyefendi, bütünüyle yalan bir k?ta, bugün tüm bunlar ÅŸaka.

We don't have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.

Dünyaya getirilir, ama yetiÅŸtirilmeyiz. Bizi dünyaya getirenler, yaratt?klar? yeni insan? yok etmek için gereken her türlü beceriksizliÄŸi ve ak?ls?zl??? yapar.

Whereas we're not even capable of living, not even capable of existing, for we don't exist, we get existed.