Quotes About Meaningless

The life of a man who is ignorant of his destiny is meaningless

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

empty things for empty men.

Was she supposed to be impressed? If waste was impressive, she was overwhelmed.

busying herself with inconsequential tasks.

This came to be a ritual, more and more meaningless as it was repeated, but a ritual which nevertheless gave his life the only shape it now had.

When the Spirit of God is grieved away, every appeal made through the Lord's servants is meaningless to them. They

L'amore vero è così: non ha nessuno scopo e nessuna ragione, e non si sottomette a nessun potere fuorché alla grazia umana.

Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.

Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.

Tot secretul vieÈ›ii se reduce la atât: ea n-are nici un rost; fiecare din noi g?seÈ™te îns? unul.

Faptul c? exist eu dovede?te c? lumea nu are nici un sens.

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.

I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity

Sadly, life is worth nothing. Or next to nothing.... The gods have died, and we distrust our dreams. We emerge from the void, stare back at it for a short while, and then rejoin the void. A young woman lies dead on her doorstep. A pointless crime, but the world pauses. We listen, and the universe has nothing to say. There's only silence, so we have to speak.

And us? Just another belch in the darkness. Sound but not word, noise without meaning.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?

In this country, land of the 24-hour news channels, it's easy to "suffer" from news exhaustion, but for me there's something in me that cries out when I hear about the suffering of others in these ultimately meaningless conflicts. How can I declare them meaningless when people are dying?

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.