Quotes About Absurdity

Das Fürchterliche muss sein Gelächter haben!

O]ur human economy is derivative from the Earth economy. To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity.

He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

que fenômeno estranho vem a ser este que bloqueia e apaga a capacidade de julgar dos homens, que lhes furta esse direito ou os condiciona a abdicar, em absurda exultação, desse mesmo direito?

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...

Well, ring-tailed rutabagas.

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…

Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.

There are times when all one can do is acknowledge the random futility of existing in this universe.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn't make the sound of a coconut.

Enlightenment is not an achievement; it is just the seeing of reality as it is. In fact, nirvana is simply what is. We have been staring at it all our lives, and yet so few of us get it. The fact is that life is at the same time lamentable and beautiful. When we realize this humorous and absurd beauty of life, what can we do but to burst into laughter?

We have been conditioned to treat rationality as sacred. But life itself is, in a very deep sense, absurd. It will not render itself to the tyranny of reason. Even the most wise cannot help but be flabbergasted by a three-year-old who keeps asking why. If you are not convinced, try asking yourself what is the reason for living. Life is basically a mystery that is not meant to be solved by our intellect. It cannot be "known" through the brain but through the heart.

I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating upon another.

Absurdity, only you are pure. Absurdity, only facing you does this ex- cess sweat golden pleasure

The highest truth is one and the same with the absurd.

This is a stupid game,

Maledetti i vestiti eleganti! A chi sarà venuta in mente un'idiozia come quella di andare in giro con un cappio al collo quando ci si vuole vestire bene?»

You can never have too much nonsense