Conan O'Brien Quotes

The point is there ain't no point.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

If you can do it then why do it?

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

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

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

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

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

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

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

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

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

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.

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