Quotes About Absurd

Tehol wiped sweat from his brow. 'Give me some of that hen tea, will you?' 'With or without?' 'With or without what?' 'Feathers.' 'That depends. Are they clean feathers?' 'They are now,' Bugg replied. 'All right, then, since I can't think of anything more absurd. With.' Bugg reached for a clay cup. 'I knew I could count on you, Master.

Once the tremendous literary productivity of Zen masters is acknowledged, the question remains whether their profusion of words and countless instances of contradictory and absurd utterances and gestures make any sense.

Because, Lucius, without the discipline of philosophy to give rigour to their thinking, people can and will believe anything, no matter how absurd.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast anytime." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday.

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over...

I donated my body to science...fiction.

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

Feminist Fables] uses the very power of language and the literary tradition to expose what is absurd and unacceptable.

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Hatred is just a funny and absurd rhyme with no tune.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

To be alive means full body contact with the absurd. Still, we can be happy. Even poor old Sisyphus could figure that much out. And that's saying something. You might say that God is an absurd concept but faith in God's goodness. . .I find joy in that. I find it inspiring.

NI! Oh no! Not ni!

he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment.

The year Alicia Gris arrived in Madrid, her mentor and puppet master Leandro Montalvo taught her that to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in, and throw away the key.

La realidad del mundo empezaba a ser más grotesca que las pantomimas de los payasos y los osos danzarines. Pronto, nadie nos necesitaría. El siglo XX se había convertido en el gran circo de la historia.