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Quotes About Absurd

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.
~ Peter Dinklage
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.
~ Steve Miller
Put your other goddamned sock on, she said. Instead, he took the first sock off. They stared at each other. It was so spectacularly absurd. She could feel the corner of her mouth twitching; she was close to laughing. Rory had used to do the same sort of thing; she'd spent a decade of her life being mollified by simple existential charm.
~ Tim Farrington
Gelos is the only force in the cosmos who stands between the gods and total universal domination, because only laughter and a sense of the absurd makes it possible for human beings to dismiss the gods as a figment of the imagination; whereas if Gelos ever finds a hero brave and strong enough to protect him from the gods, he will be able to rule the whole
~ Tom Holt
Half Asleep in Frogg pajamas.
~ Tom Robbins
Humans desired reasons; reasons for pain, reasons for sadness, reasons for life, reasons for death. Why were their lives filled with suffering? Why were their deaths absurd? They wanted reasons for the destiny that kept transcending their knowledge and that was GOD.
~ Kentaro Miura
I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.
~ Kinky Friedman
In the elementary equations of the world,13 the arrow of time appears only where there is heat.* The link between time and heat is therefore fundamental: every time a difference is manifested between the past and the future, heat is involved. In every sequence of events that becomes absurd if projected backward, there is something that is heating up.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Stephanie's vaginal teeth scrape against him as she makes love to him. Kevin cringes as she presses her messy head wound against his cheek. He doesn't enjoy the sex. It feels like he's getting a really bad blowjob from a girl with big teeth and a small mouth.
~ Carlton Mellick III
Desde que el mundo es mundo, vivir y morir vienen siendo la cara y la cruz de una misma moneda echada al aire, pero si sale cara es todavía más absurdo. Para mí, si quieren que les diga la verdad, lo raro es vivir.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on their diamond-encrusted yacht? And why did they bring so many clothes?" -Riley
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.
~ George R.R. Martin
Captain Creech's face, bobbing between Larry's and Donald's, had achieved an extraordinary mauve colour, rather like the bloom of a plum.
~ Gerald Durrell
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
~ Lewis Mumford
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!
~ Robert Browning
A mad world, my masters.
~ John Taylor
The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.
~ Jack Kerouac
The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
~ Mark Bradford
Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
~ David Brock
having 'weakly disturbing' images of waffles with pasta on top
~ Tao Lin
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
~ Miguel Syjuco
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.
~ Moby
Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.
~ Marvin Ammori
You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.
~ Ann Landers