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Quotes About Absurdity

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
~ Anatole France
A mad world, my masters.
~ John Taylor
The government can catch a hare with an oxcart!
~ Ismail Kadare
Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote
~ Ismail Kadare
Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.
~ J.D. Robb
Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.
~ J.D. Robb
Things should make sense, and half the time they don't. Stuff that shouldn't make sense, half the time does.
~ J.D. Robb
life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder.
~ J.D. Robb
Yeah, we could strap a small car to Lassiter's back and make him run around by the pool—
~ J.R. Ward
Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.
~ J.R. Ward
So yeah, conversationally speaking, we just faced off in a duel, where she had a gun and I had two paper clips and a rubber band. But it's fine. Although, hey, while we're on the subject, maybe you want to slice my nut sac off and put my two veg in your back pocket? 'Cuz I won't be needing them anymore after this.
~ J.R. Ward
Craziness, indeed. And
~ J.R. Ward
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
~ Jack Gilbert
My philosophy is that you can't explain the world. It's too big and it's too crazy and sometimes it's funny and most of the time it's... strange.
~ Jack Kerouac
Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.
~ Brie Larson
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
~ Clark M. Clifford
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
~ Max Hastings
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
~ Voltaire
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
~ Eric Idle
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
~ Clarence Darrow
The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
Zaraz zrobimy kaw?. Wprawdzie nie mam kawy, fili?anek i pieni?dzy, ale od czego jest nadrealizm, metafizyka, poetyka snów.
~ Tadeusz Ró?ewicz