Quotes about Absurdity

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.

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

That to fancy the words of consecration perform what the papists call transubstantiation, by converting the wafer and wine into the real and identical body and blood of Christ, which was crucified, and which afterward ascended into heaven, is too gross an absurdity for even a child to believe, who was come to the least glimmering of reason; and that nothing but the most blind superstition could make the Roman Catholics put a confidence in anything so completely ridiculous.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.