Best 406 quotes in «absurd quotes» category

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because we're not like I said, we're not journalists. And at that point, there's nothing sort of funny or absurd or to say about it.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

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 I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

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

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

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

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.

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

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

After the elections, voters are never given an applause.

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

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

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

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

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

An ambitious woman never takes seriously men's compliments.

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!

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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

Blood is thicker than water, and so is diarrhea