Quotes About Absurdity

Wenn du so lang wärst, wie du dumm bist, könntst du aus der Dachrinne saufen.

when hell freezes over pigs fly and a cow jump over the moon amma like u

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

Anything awful makes me laugh.

Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.

I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy, the history of a planet, the history of a person is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of glittering, occasionally peaceful light to help you follow along. Cue the music. Cue the dancers. Cue tomorrow.

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.

One time a Fuckwit brought a snowball into work to prove that the planet getting warmer was just a story to scare little ones and I don't know for sure but I like to think he (or at least all his descendants) got eaten by sharks.

All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.

It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

The regress is infinite. and this reduces to absurdity the theory that for an operation to be intelligent it must be steered by a prior intellectual operation.

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

La realtà può permettersi ogni stranezza: la fantasia no.

La stupidità, quando viene ad assumere un'esagerata intensità, diventa anarchia

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying, whenever the seemingly prosaic old world lifts the veil on its synchronicities. Meanwhile the seemingly prosaic old world shrugs: Hey, don't ask me. I just work here.

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

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

There is no such thing as sentimental nonsense, for there is no nonsensical sentiment.