Quotes About Absurdity

Ha muerto el Hijo de Dios: es absolutamente creíble, porque es absurdo; y también ha resucitado de la tumba: es cierto, porque es imposible.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

Get the eggs Get the flan in the face

But to say, as some writers alluded to by Augustine (Gen. ad lit. ii, 4), that waters resolved into vapor may be lifted above the starry heaven, is a mere absurdity.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Ausgerechnet der Mensch ist unmenschlich.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.

The absurdity of believing that the decisions about who we love, and who we bind ourselves to, could be arrived at rationally? Or of assuming that we would be afforded a fair or natural death? Or did she mean the absurdity of having once believed in the possibility of dedicating one's life to anything beyond tomorrow, beyond just surviving? Or just the simple, long-standing absurdity of having lived a beginning that bore so little relation to the end?

Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. Come down! they cried to him. Come down! Come down! Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. I can't, he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. Why? they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. Because then you'll stop asking for me.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.

She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.

What the hell are you doing?" "What the hell does it look like I'm doing?" "It looks like you're putting pants on that dog." "Then that's what the hell I'm doing.

He understood and accepted that humans were basically ridiculous.

What am I supposed to do? Beat her to death with my tripod?