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Quotes About Meaningless

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
~ Jeff Bezos
I can do very dramatic films, and at the same time, I can do a very meaningless movie, too, if I feel my role is good.
~ Vivek Oberoi
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
~ Nora Ephron
I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.
~ Josh Tillman
I have always believed that if a film has only two characters, but they do not make any sense, then the film's meaningless.
~ Shruti Haasan
how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?" I tried to keep the irritation out of my voice. "You know what I mean." "It's a meaningless question. Get your head out of the twentieth century.
~ Peter Watts
I believe that in my generation, the belief in a platonic mathematics has often been a substitute religion for people who have abandoned or even rejected traditional religions. Where can certainty be found in a chaotic universe that often seems meaningless? Mathematics has often been claimed to be the sole source of absolute certainty.
~ Philip J. Davis
As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
~ Campbell Brown
I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
~ Jacki Weaver
A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. 'What does electricity taste like?' I ask. 'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which
~ Jon Ronson
But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Bu anlams?z dünya kargaÅŸa dolu ve ben de kaybolanlardan biriyim.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Peace with no content, meaningless tranquillity, rest without sanctity – all are empty vessels. At best, the emptiness is soon filled with positive content.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Life is a cascade of nows falling on top of one another without meaning or purpose. Of all the philosophers, only Schopenhauer ever got that right.
~ Adrian McKinty
Their roaring machines filled the silence of their own deserts, gouged the quiet face of their own moon, shook the planets with a senseless fury of meaningless energy. They were the conquerors, and it never occurred to them that an ancient peace and stillness could be worth preserving.
~ Poul Anderson
You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, 'We are all put into the world for...' because we weren't put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that's fine.
~ Quentin Crisp
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I was a voracious reader, but after Hannah's death I grew insatiable. Books became my milk and honey. I made myself feel better by reciting jejune statements like 'Books are the air I breathe,' or, worse, 'Life is meaningless without literature,' all in a weak attempt to avoid the fact that I found the world inexplicable and impenetrable. Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children's picture book.
~ Rabih Alameddine
My useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. (#15)
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.
~ Howard Jacobson
Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.
~ Jared Polis