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Quotes About Absurdity

Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.
~ Carl Hiaasen
We may not care to play the part of public jesters ourselves, but the least we can do is to be grateful to those who are willing to become absurd for our benefit. Patronize them daintily, therefore, lest they backslide into propriety.
~ Gelett Burgess
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head.
~ Gemma Halliday
Great. Dead bodies, road kill and Toys R Us. Could this day get any better?
~ Gemma Halliday
If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.
~ Gena Showalter
You have made me more frustrated than a zombie at a salad bar. Fix it!
~ Gena Showalter
A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders zero beers. Orders 999,999,999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders negative one beer. Orders a 'sfdeljknesv.
~ Gene Kim
the fantastic power and ultimate absurdity of unchecked exponential growth.
~ Geoffrey West
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tragicomic absurdity from Disney World, as the pack of Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Mulan fell upon children, each red bite a boutonniere.
~ George A. Romero
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
~ George Carlin
Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?
~ George Carlin
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
~ George Carlin
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~ George Carlin
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
~ George Carlin
Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie
~ Ilona Andrews
You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars. Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.
~ Ilona Andrews
For if the question is absurd in itself and demands unnecessary answers, then, besides the embarrassment of the one who proposes it, it also has the disadvantage of misleading the incautious listener into absurd answers, and presenting the ridiculous sight (as the ancients said) of one person milking a billy-goat while the other holds a sieve underneath. (A58/B82)
~ Immanuel Kant
It was a voyage into the absurd.
~ Iris Murdoch
I am the nonsense priest of the nonsense god!
~ Iris Murdoch
This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.
~ Irvine Welsh
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
~ Clive James
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
~ Louis H. Sullivan
The absurd man is he who never changes.
~ Auguste Barthelemy