Quotes About Meaningless

When the task is mocking pop culture, it's easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to feel like this route was completely pointless. Talking about silly, inconsequential stuff doesn't mean you can't put some effort into it.

Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands that it be that way. There's no villain, no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

But, as with people, some plants were completely useless.

Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man's breath.

There were the meaningless greetings the humans called formalities: insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.

What have they said to us? I could translate, but it would be meaningless. They have welcomed us in the name of their Emperor, who appears to be an over-Master. The short, round one is Mediator to this Emperor. Ah. We have at last found one who can communicate. Speak to her. But he has said nothing! Say nothing in return.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

first impression is often just that, a quick snapshot that on its own merit is meaningless. After a vacation, in time, it gets lost in a shoe box full of them.

The philosophy that accepts death must itself be considered dead, its questions meaningless, its consolations worn out.

Her name is Anarchy . And she has taught me more as a mistress than you [Justice] ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom . She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you , Jezebel .

The envious ones struck me," I say "but I was not hurt; they beat me with their hate, but I did not feel it, and I will say to my soul, "Soul, the jealousy and hate they have poured onto you is forever meaningless when your strength comes from God.

The function of a friend is not to have a function.

Conversation that was lifeless, hollow, dry as bone.

Compassion without action is meaningless.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.