Eric Idle Quotes

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

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

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

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.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

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."

Everything is absurd.

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

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

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

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.