Quotes About Meaningless

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. (…) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way.

And most likely, that was the future in a nutshell, Sumire growing ever more distant. It made me sad. I felt like I was a meaningless bug clinging for no special reason to a high stone wall on a windy night, with no plans, no beliefs. Sumire said she missed me. But she had Miu beside her. I had no one. all I had was-me. Same as always.

but I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another

Good style, clear argument, but you're not saying anything.

By the second week in September I reached the conclusion that a college education was meaningless. I decided to think of it as a period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

I couldn't see anything. There was nothing in me, and nothing outside of me... I had no reason.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

But what good was this theoretical rubbish?

The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life-- and as meaningless.

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

We live in a world where words are as meaningless as a snowflake in a blizzard

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!

There are 378,000 miles of roads in America's national forests. That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America's interstate highway system.

All that is gone. Nowadays we have nothing but meaningless names. Look at Starbucks and their cup sizes—Venti, Trenta, and Wanko Grande or whatever.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.

These thoughts have no meaning. They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle: I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything. Thinking the first thought triggers the whole circuit. It's like the flu: first a sore throat, then, inevitably, a stuffy nose and a cough. Once, these thoughts must have had a meaning. They must have meant what they said. But repetition has blunted them. They have become background music, a Muzak medley of self-hatred themes.

Kafamda ak?l nam?na ne kalm??sa onu kullanarak bedenimi tuzaÄŸa düÅŸürmem gerekiyordu, yoksa beni elli y?l boyunca o ahmak kafesinde hiçbir anlam? olmayan bir yaÅŸama mahkûm edecekti.

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.

And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life—running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien—marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.