Quotes About Absurd

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

As to the … teaching of certain Churches, that God took upon Himself human nature … they seem to me to speak no less absurdly than one who might tell me that a circle has taken on the nature of a square.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear that the student in question wasn't a danger - doesn't make anyone safer. Worse, it can actually cause harm.

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective kafkaesque

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.

Kafkaesque The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.

As Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' This is marvelously funny. Instead of waking up from a nightmare, Gregor wakes up into one. Reality, the only balm for bad dreams, is significantly less reassuring when you wake up hideously disfigured.

Una mañana, al despertar de sus sueños intranquilos, Gregor Samsa se encontró en su cama convertido en un monstruoso bicho.

En se réveillant un matin après des rêves agités, Gregor Samsa se retrouva, dans son lit, métamorphosé en un monstrueux insecte.

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

Hope implies a deep-seated trust in life that appears absurd to most who lack it."277