The picture of the guy pissing on the chair was a picture I had to do. I had the idea of this absurd act of pissing on a chair rather than in a toilet or on the ground, and this minimal act being so transgressive, even though no major harm is done.
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
The absurd is sin without God.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
Punch me. " "Don't be absurd. " "Come on, punch me, Barrons. " "I'm not punching you. " "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.
To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.