Quotes about Absurdity

People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that's who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Deep down, it really is just a meaningless lyric, isn't it? [Sings] "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier". I mean, you may as well be saying "I got ham, but I'm not a hamster"

I got ham but I'm not a Hamster

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.

But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.