Quotes About Meaningless

Surroundings are irrelevant. Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling. It seemed to her that the world was full of meaningless people saying words.

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Life is over before you get to understand anything and so is probably meaningless

But knowledge felt useless to him in that moment, like a key without anything to open.

I am a nobody. ... Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether.

The chances of anybody today being a 'pure' example of any specific medieval 'race' must be close to zero, quite aside from the category being patently meaningless.

What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day's stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once. (Cornet at Night)

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Others just liked having their useless shit around in the place where they spent most of their time.

He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed to capture whatever it had hoped, and that probing gaze perhaps expressed alarm at the emptying of his vision, at the dissolution of the things see, observed, into a meaningless vastness.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Romantic Egoist What I find really sad is... his smiles, his kindness... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything!

When you are lying, when you are keeping a secret, when you are withholding information or feelings in any moment, you are always doing that to protect something meaningless.

Declarations of love or loss were meaningless to her. It was like playing catch with yourself. It had to go two ways.

Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.