Quotes About Absurdity

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un idiota y su locura; mientras que dos o tres idiotas menos no se echarían de menos en el mundo.

You sang the seas calm, and you drove the Dalriada to war, whatever it took. They know that. That's why they adore you. But everyone needs to laugh in the face of death. They're following an anguissette into battle. Give them credit for seeing the absurdity of it. You've been dwelling on it long enough.

Real questions can be absurdly phrased, and probably can be answered only by the questioner, and, at that, only in time. But real questions, especially from the young, are very moving and I will always remember the faces of some of those children.

The fatality rate is 100%. But then things get very weird.

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.