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Quotes About Absurd

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'
~ Steven Wright
I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.
~ Steven Wright
So I went to the dentist. He said Say Aaah. I said Why? He said My dog's died.'
~ Tim Vine
I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.
~ Tommy Cooper
I once made love to a female clown, and she twisted my penis into a poodle.
~ Unknown
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
~ Steven Wright
The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
~ Ronnie Barker
I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
~ Mitch Hedberg
It wasn't playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.
~ Unknown
no better than Bellyfluff, Sillystuff, or Starchyruff;
~ Unknown
I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.)
~ Martha Wells
I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.) I've also had clients who thought they didn't need any security at all, right up until something ate them.
~ Martha Wells
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism
~ Martin Esslin
The notion that relativity physics supports the avoidance of value judgments in anthropology, for example, or a relativism with respect to morals, is absurd. Actually, relativity introduces a whole series of new "absolutes.
~ Martin Gardner
For such thoughts are accustomed to occur to men's minds when God wants to punish sins; they regard God's Word and absolute truth as something quite absurd.
~ Martin Luther
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
~ Unknown
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analys
~ Oswald Mosley
You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?
~ Mary E. Pearson
An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a brain it certainly is not idle. And when one considers how brilliant a personage the Devil is, and what very fine work he turns out, it becomes an open question whether he would have the slightest use for most of the idle brains that cumber the earth.
~ Mary MacLane
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
~ Marya Hornbacher
It is the contemplation of absurd odds. We are all inside a dream that is real. We are the fires conjured from nothing. We exist out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.
~ Matt Haig
Two plus two equals car accident.
~ Matt Haig
White folks' belief that Negroes were magically gifted struck her as the most absurd form of superstition. Sorcery was in the Bible, which meant it was real, but to Momma it was self-evident that like every other kind of power it would be concentrated in the hands of the mighty.
~ Unknown
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan