Quotes About Absurd

One day, upon awakening from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin." —Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis One day, upon awakening, Haileab Asgedom found himself, in America, transformed into a monstrous black beetle.

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd!

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

That's as preposterous as a H-I-P-P-O-P-O-T-A-M-U-S," Jessica said.

How painful and absurd, this fantasy that your own labors might in turn be redeemed by strangers centuries and perhaps continents away who would need to hear what you had to whisper, this delusion that you were doing anything other than babbling because you like the sounds it makes, like a child blowing bubbles into milk.

You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children." This was all said cheerfully. "How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

after that I can die in peace instead of having to explain the most elementary matters to absurdly credulous halfwits. And

Our system of education turns young people out of the schools able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or to form an independent opinion. They are then assailed, throughout the rest of their lives, by statements designed to make them believe all sorts of absurd propositions, such as that Blank's pills cure all ills, that Spitzbergen is warm and fertile, and that Germans eat corpses.

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

This piece of scientific history illustrates a general maxim: that any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but that, when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance.

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.

Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd.

bathetic, grotesque. At the moment of his

Es siempre la absurda costumbre de dar más importancia a las personas que a los sentimientos. No encuentro otra palabra. Quiero decir: más importancia al instrumento que a la música.

Seguirán sin comprender, seguirán hablando de caprichos de la vida, de avatares de la fortuna o del destino de la persona. No sabe que es absurdo hablar del destino sin relacionarlo con la naturaleza social del mundo en el que uno vive

In other words, they were all plumb crazy.

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.