Edward Gorey Quotes

… a silly place

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Everything is absurd.

The point is there ain't no point.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

If there's no point, then there's no point giving up.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

Logic is pointless.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?