7 Woody Allen Quotes on Absurdity

Woody Allen quotes on absurdity

3. Allen: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it? Woman: Yes, it is. Allen: What does it say to you? Woman: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos. Allen: What are you doing Saturday night? Woman: Committing suicide. Allen: What about Friday night?

54. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

57. There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness - and it's all over much too quickly.

66. I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.

78. Taste my tuna casserole - tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.

94. I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

114. How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?