Absurdity quotes

Discover a world of nonsensical brilliance with our collection of absurdity quotes, celebrating the beauty in chaos and the joy of embracing life's unpredictable twists. Dive into hilarious and thought-provoking musings that challenge conventional norms. Explore the realm of absurdity and find inspiration in its whimsicality.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

- Joseph Heller

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

- Joseph Heller

Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

- Joseph Heller

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

- Joseph Heller

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

- Luigi Pirandello

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Luigi Pirandello

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

- Luigi Pirandello

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

- Joseph Heller

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

- Nicolaus Copernicus

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

- Luigi Pirandello

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

- Sophie Marceau

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

- Luigi Pirandello

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

- Timothy Radcliffe

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

- Joseph Heller

Rise above principle and do what's right.

- Joseph Heller

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

- Joseph Heller

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

- Luigi Pirandello

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

- Joseph Heller

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

- Joseph Heller

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

- Julio Cortazar

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

- Joseph Heller

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

- Joseph Heller

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

- Ambrose Bierce

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

- Clark M. Clifford

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

- Patrick Warburton

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

- Vaclav Havel

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

- Albert Camus

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

- Martin Short