Quotes About Absurd

'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement.

think you'd put the horses in the house, though," he guffawed.

It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of will. An untold number had done this before him for religious reasons, but Kafka had based his renunciation on nothing but a self-image. He claimed that for better or worse he was what he was, and that therefore much was out of the question for him

If you accept a punitive notion of God, who punishes or even eternally tortures those who do not love him, then you have an absurd universe where most people on this earth end up being more loving than God!

For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane

Most everything is incredibly stupid.

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.

It wasn't that happiness led to humor, but more that humor could lead, perhaps, to happiness—that an eye for the absurd could keep one active in one's despair, the opposite of depressed: static and passive.

You damned moose.

How cam'st thou to be the siege of this mooncalf?

Egregiously an ass.

A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

Technically speaking, that means there was a lot of wee and poo in it.)

With a Spoon?!

Your poo-poo-poodle-pops and your wee-willy-wee-wees!

We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

I reached for the knob. At the same moment it began to melt and transform, turning pink and finally taking the shape of a flaccid penis. It flopped softly against the door, like a man was cramming it through the knob hole from the other side. I turned back to John and said, 'That door cannot be opened.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked "That if Franz Kafka were here his head would explode?" "Actually, yeah.