Quotes About Senselessness

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure out that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically defineable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time.

In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He

The victim's submission to utter senselessness becomes the defeat of sense. His obeisance to absurdity becomes the refutation of logic.

Psychologist Carl Jung, in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul, wrote, "About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time."3 Jung wrote those words in the early part of the twentieth century, but with every passing year and decade their truth has become even more glaring. Holocaust

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction.

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.