Quotes about Absurdity

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

There is no absurdity so palpable that one could not fix it firmly in the head of every man on earth provided one began to imprint it before his sixth year by ceaselessly rehearsing it before him with solemn earnestness.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine? Alice: Yes... The Mad Hatter: We haven't any and you're too young.