Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

A man can love her woman, or he can be her husband.

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug!

A existência inteira, para um homem afastado do eterno, não passa de uma imitação desmesurada sob a máscara do absurdo.

A global awakening can not happen. We all live in different time zones.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

A brick and a blanket together create a blick. That’s it. That’s all I got.

After the elections, voters are never given an applause.

A man can love her wife, or he can be her husband.

An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet

An ambitious woman never takes seriously men's compliments.

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do. Physics shook its head and, looking the other way, concentrated on keeping the cards going along the Euston Road and out over towards the Westway flyover, on keeping the street lights lit and on making sure that when somebody on Baker Street dropped a cheeseburger it went splat on the ground.

Are you an evolutionist? I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we see them evolving? Are they still evolving?

And then, on the final day, it was time for the faux Underground Railroad. This is the part that no one believes. "No adult would ever do that," they say. "You can't be remembering that right." I am, in fact, remembering it perfectly. The counselors "shackled" us together with jump ropes so we were "like slave families" and then released us into the woods. We were given a map with a route to "freedom" in "the North", which must have been only three or four hundred feet but felt like much more. Then a counselor on horseback followed ten minutes later, acting as a bounty hunter. Hearing hooves, I crouched being a rock with Jason Baujelais and Sari Brooker, begging them to be quiet so we weren't caught and "whipped." I was too young, self-involved, and dissociated to wonder what kind of impact this had on my black classmates. All I knew was that I was miserable. We heard the sound of hooves growing closer and Max Kitnick's light asthma wheezes from beind an oak tree. "Shut up," Jason hissed, and I knew we were cooked. When the counselor appeared, Sari started to cry.

A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.

Ar aš miegojau, kai kiti kentėjo? Ar aš miegu šiuo metu? Ką pasakysiu apie šią dieną rytoj, kai man atrodys, jog nebemiegu? Kad štai čia su savo draugu Estragonu iki sutemstant laukiau Godo? Kad praėjo Poco su savo nešiku ir kad jis su mumis kalbėjo? Taip, žinoma. Bet ar čia bus bent truputis tiesos? (Estragonas po tuščių bandymų nusiauti batus vėl užmiega. Vladimiras žiūri į jį) Jis nieko nežinos. Pasakos, kad jį mušė, ir aš jam duosiu morką. (Po pauzės) Gimdyti apsižergus kapą ir kančiose gimti. Duobėje duobkasys svajingai tvarkosi įrankius. Lieka laiko susenti. Ore skamba mūsų riksmai. (Klausosi) Bet įprotis – didysis slopintojas. (Žiūri į Estragoną) Štai ir į mane kažkas žiūri ir sako sau: jis miega, jis nežino, kad miega. (Po pauzės) Daugiau nebegaliu. (Po pauzės) Ką aš kalbėjau?

- A pan czy wierzy w duchy - spytał prelegenta jeden ze słuchaczy. - Oczywiście, że nie - odparł prelegent, po czym z wolna rozpłynął się w powietrzu.

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia

A sibling in full spate is always frightening, their anger a surprising powerful defense, their deeper impotence equally powerful, absurd.

At age 6 I was born without a face.

A woman always has to prove her beauty.

Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second

Blood is thicker than water, and so is diarrhea

Cheap is the love that has a price.

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick the Great]

Come Hell or High Water" usually depends on the kind of plug you use in the bath tub

Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee." That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.

Date rape is just plain moronic when you consider how slutty figs are

Dating should really be more like furniture store commercials....I would love to' pay no interest for 6 months

Death is life's way of telling you, you've been recalled

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

Dieu n'est pas utilitaire. Dieu est un cadeau de fête, un don gratuit, un lingot de platine, une image artistique, une friandise légère. Dieu est en plus. Il n'est ni pour ni contre. C'est du rabiot !

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it

Do you like flora and fauna? How about plants and animals? Because we have more of that beautiful crap than we know what to do with. Charmingly domesticated troops of monkeys swing freely throughout our orchid-laden property. You’re probably thinking that a lot of all-inclusive resorts have monkeys. True, but only one resort packs a monkey for each of their guests to take home. You’ll be showing off more than a tan to your friends, you’ll be showing off a gibbon.

Everything is a drive-thru. You just have to aim really fast

Did you bring your book of nightmares?" Dr. Tuttle asked, sitting down behind her desk.