Gertrude Stein Quotes

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

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

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

Life is funny and weird.

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 absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."