Quotes About Absurdity

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

How can you sit here and know that day... three I'm not going to be driving you crazy because I laugh like a horse or...or... dress up your penis in Barbie clothes?

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

The sun is a joke.

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

There was a time, before I wound up here, when I would have thought all this was funny. When I was a member of the world, and not a member of "the club." The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. I