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Quotes About Absurdity

A theologian is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there -- and finding it.
~ Tags: hunting
Stupidity is not a crime. You're free to go.
~ Tags: hunting
learned a long time ago never to underestimate the spectacular natural wonder that is people's stupidity.
~ Tana French
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
~ Tanya Huff
a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really it was just the hole that's in the middle of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog to find out what my politics are
~ Tao Lin
You've been inexpressibly lucky, " he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing
~ Naomi Novik, Uprooted
I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.
~ Jeffrey Bernard
According to your medical checkup, you are dead.
~ Rene Desmaison
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
~ Vaclav Havel
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
~ E. W. Howe
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
~ Rene Char
Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.
~ John Hiatt
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
~ William Pitt
That is a very odd thing to see on the Thames," Daniel remarked. "What flag does she fly?" For van Hoek had unlimbered his prospective-glass. "The double eagle. She is a war-galley of the Russian Navy," van Hoek said. Then, after a moment's pause, he laughed at the absurdity of such a thing.
~ Neal Stephenson
Whole sections had been taken over by the King's pack of semi-feral spaniels, who'd become inbred even by Royal standards and thus hare-brained even by Spaniel standards.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's like asking what is south of the South Pole
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's tragic. The wounds that humans get are so strong that they're like robots operating on childhood programming. And even if they learn the truth about themselves in therapy and rehab, they still cling to their false beliefs and make choices that don't serve them—over and over again." He shakes his head at the cosmic absurdity of it all. "It takes hard, conscious, diligent work to genuinely change.
~ Neil Strauss
She expressed shock at my many injuries and scars. I kissed this little-ass, adorable-ass stripper mothafucka tenderly and said, "I'm not an insane maniac. I'm a poser insane maniac. I'm just dealing with the absurdity of existence by shoving absurdity down existence's throat." She
~ Neil Strauss
Almost she wished she could die. Not quite. It wasn't that she was afraid of death, which had, she thought, its picturesque aspects. It was rather that she knew she would not die. And death, after the debacle, would but intensify its absurdity. Also, it would reduce her, Helga Crane, to unimportance, to nothingness. Even in her unhappy present state, that did not appeal to her.
~ Nella Larsen
people firing rifles with live ammunition at me. Do you know what I did? I laughed. It was too ludicrous.
~ Nelson DeMille
I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?
~ Joe Pesci
Naked dudes are inherently funny.
~ Adam DeVine