Quotes About Absurd

Load of ole mollygrubbers

I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My "useless gallimaufry," your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.

At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.

A block of blood should not have the word cake after it...they might as well say shite gateau

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

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

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

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