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Quotes About Absurd

It was like an apple running for Congress, a bike rack wearing a bathing suit.
~ Daniel Handler
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
~ Danny DeVito
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
~ Wendell Berry
Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and "he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
~ Will Durant
PM está excesivamente organizada y se basa en gran medida en una ineficiente burocracia absurda.
~ Will Self
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.
~ William Gibson
Voytek is here, to fuck penguin.
~ William Gibson
What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...
~ William Golding
Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.
~ William Goldman
First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
~ William James
The concept of the State implies the concept of war, for the essence of the State is power… That war should ever be banished from the world is a hope not only absurd, but profoundly immoral.
~ William L. Shirer
and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very thought was quite absurd . . .
~ China Mieville
He never got a really proper look at them, but the situation told him it must be a swarming flock of vaginas that flew all around his head, biting him toothlessly on his ears and his cheeks and his neck.
~ Chris Adrian
Poked a juggling bear in the belly. Tried to toggle Tiny Tim's crutch sideways.
~ Chris Grabenstein
it ranked alongside having Vaseline smeared liberally around your ring by a guy with a sack full of ferrets.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.
~ Henny Youngman
Feet in the Gravy
~ Henry Cole
Life is fragile and absurd.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The victim's submission to utter senselessness becomes the defeat of sense. His obeisance to absurdity becomes the refutation of logic.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
~ Leonard Woolf
We are convinced that believing in God is worthwhile. We thereby want to express the conviction that it is not death that has the last word but life; it is not the absurd but the full meaning in life that wins the day.
~ Leonardo Boff
Everything was silent. Only man was awake in his misery, laboring in the sweat of his brow for the sake of this absurd existence that he passionately loves and despises in equal measure.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
It would be absurd to maintain that Marxism was, so to speak, the efficient cause of present-day Communism; on the other hand, Communism is not a mere 'degeneration' of Marxism but a possible interpretation of it, and even a well-founded one, though primitive and partial in some respects.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.
~ letterman david iv