Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#absurdity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #absurdity




Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.


Criss Jami


#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you think I could tell if I had gingivitis?


M.T. Anderson


#gingivitis #humor #change

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.


Catherynne M. Valente


#authority #life #rules #society #life

Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde.


Albert Camus


#death #suicide #death

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful


Albert Camus


#experience

I told her that my happy yellow teapot has a kinky backstory involving a nineteenth-century vegetarian sex cult in upstate New York whose members lived for three decades as self-proclaimed "Bible communists" before incorporating into the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the American food-service industry, not to mention harboring their most infamous resident, an irritating young maniac who, years after he moved away, was hanged for assassinating President Garfield.


Sarah Vowell


#yay-history #food

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.


Karl Lagerfeld


#absurdity #anti-absurdity #art #bi #bipolar

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.


Theodore Kaczynski


#depression #drugs #pharmaceuticals #psychiatry #psychology

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#life #nothingness #life

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.


Julio Cortázar


#belief #life #life






back to top