life's absurdity Quotes

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.