Absurdist Plays Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

Arthur Adamov

#3. As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#4. My point is this: When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer.

Mandy Hale

#5. Do not be concerned with what others have or have not done. Observe your own actions and inactions.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.

Robert E. Howard

#7. When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan