Quotes About Absurdity

What did they live on," said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. "They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two. "They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked. "They'd have been ill." "So they were," said the Dormouse, "very ill." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Desde que el mundo es mundo, vivir y morir vienen siendo la cara y la cruz de una misma moneda echada al aire, pero si sale cara es todavía más absurdo. Para mí, si quieren que les diga la verdad, lo raro es vivir.

Dissonance is disquieting because to hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and, as Albert Camus observed, we are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. At the heart of it, Festinger's theory is about how people strive to make sense out of contradictory ideas and lead lives that are, at least in their own minds, consistent and meaningful.

Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.

You never sounded farther away from me and I will take that balloon and stab the fuck out of and at the same time I will take that balloon and tie it around Peach's neck because WHO THE FUCK CAN CUNT OUT OVER A BALLOON?

When you are talking about stupidity, only the military knows the meaning of the word infinite

Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on their diamond-encrusted yacht? And why did they bring so many clothes?" -Riley

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.

He wondered how many lives had been snuffed out by that fart.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Well," said Larry with dignity, "it may give you pleasure to be woken at half-past three in the morning by a pigeon who seems intent on pushing his rectum into your eye...

He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.