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Quotes About Absurd

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
~ David Mamet
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~ Voltaire
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
~ Jimmy Swaggart
The absurd is sin without God.
~ Albert Camus
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
~ Mark Slouka
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.
~ Robert E. Sherwood
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
~ Jenny Eclair
You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.
~ Brad Pitt
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
~ Albert Camus
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
~ Thornton Wilder
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
~ Niels Bohr
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
~ Steven Wright
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
~ Tommy Cooper
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
~ Steven Wright
I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?
~ Steven Wright
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
~ Emo Philips
Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!
~ Noel Fielding
If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.
~ Richelle Mead, Succubus on Top
And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.
~ Tommy Cooper
I washed mud off of mud.
~ Steven Wright