Top 35 Absurdist Absurdist Quotes
#1. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#2. Are you an evolutionist?
I'm an absurdist, ma'am. But let's suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can't we see them evolving? Are they still evolving?
Harrison Wheeler
#3. You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.
Melissa Kantor
#4. He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.
Christopher Moore
#5. Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
Arthur Adamov
#7. Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Thomas Sowell
#9. Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
Bradley Sands
#11. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#12. Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Groucho Marx
#13. I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.
Rose McGowan
#14. Having faith in God means extending yourself into uncharted waters, exposing your heart and soul so others may benefit, even when it's inconvenient.
Robert Palasciano
#17. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#18. Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere
#19. Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.
Paul Krassner
#20. Successful people go through fear to get to where they are.
Saji Ijiyemi
#21. Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
George Sanders
#23. I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could do it, but it's actually turning into a cat now. This might happen at home I guess, but it probably won't."
Thu Tran
#24. But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive.
Albert Camus
#25. The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.
Albert Camus
#26. I'm thinking the only way you could possibly be any more perfect right now," he says against my skin, "would be if I were fucking you so hard the people in the lobby could hear your screams.
J.M. Darhower
#27. I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.
Nicholas Royle
#29. Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.
Michael Schultz
#30. I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.
Joss Whedon
#31. The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley
#32. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#33. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.
Christopher Durang
#34. One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party, said Rabbi Loew.
Deborah Harkness
#35. I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
Mike White
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