Absurd Life Quotes

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

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

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

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

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

My life is just a ridiculous one.