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Quotes About Absurd

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.
~ Lois Greiman
The whole thing's absurd," he said. "Your sister married a duke. I told Clevedon . . ." he trailed off. "What did you tell him?" "Never mind that now," he said. "I certainly will mind it now," she said. "Do you want to find Clara or do you want to quarrel?" he said. "Preferably both," she said.
~ Loretta Chase
Run away. Me and Monty Python.
~ Jim Butcher
Harry, that's not a plan, it's a Looney Tune.
~ Jim Butcher
There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine." Butters sputtered
~ Jim Butcher
Para ter sucesso é preciso ambição, e a ambição me parece absurda.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
~ Voltaire
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~ Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
~ Voltaire
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
~ Unknown
My second thoughts condemn And wonder how I dare To look you in the eye. What right have I to swear Even at one a.m. To love you till I die? Earth meets too many crimes For fibs to interest her; If I can give my word, Forgiveness can recur Any number of times In Time. Which is absurd. Tempus fugit. Quite. So finish up your drink. All flesh is grass. It is. But who on earth can think With heavy heart or light Of what will come of this?
~ W.H. Auden
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
~ W.H. Auden
I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
~ Scott Adams
Anyhow, I took out my glasseye to sleep, and when I woke up I couldn't remember where I'd put it.
~ Philip Roth
Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.
~ Unknown
C'est totalement absurde les rappels . Enfin, écoutez, dans la vie normale, dans la vie courante, quand un type a fini son boulot, qu'est-ce qu'il fait ? Il dit au revoir, et il s'en va. Voilà. Il ne revient pas : enfin, on n'imagine pas un plombier, par exemple, re-sonnant à la porte, après avoir réparé une fuite, juste pour refiler un petit coup de clé de douze.
~ Unknown
The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren at full volume, heedless of the pedestrians in his way.
~ Primo Levi
Politics, he thought sourly. It was not, as the philosopher Ajencis had written, the negotiation of advantage within communities of men; it was more an absurd auction than an exercise in oratory. One bartered principle and piety to accomplish what principle and piety demanded. One sullied himself in order to be cleansed.
~ R. Scott Bakker
They warn that any effort to put two objects in the same place at the same time will have catastrophic consequences. When you think about it, a lot of fundamental physics is the solemn statement of the absurdly obvious. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
~ Dean Koontz
But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, purring, ticking, driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we possess, for as long as we have hope, we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency.
~ Dean Koontz
Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.
~ Denis Johnson
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
~ Diana Gabaldon
As to there ever being a great military organization under him, the thing is absurd.
~ Unknown