Quotes About Meaningless

Masculinity must be proved, and no sooner is it proved than it is again questioned and must be proved again-constant, relentless, unachievable, and ultimately the quest for proof becomes so meaningless that it takes on the characteristics, as Weber said, of a sport. He who has the most toys when he dies wins.

Hoy día, su vida se asemeja más bien a un periódico: sin sentido, al día y lleno de sucesos disparatados.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun" (Eccl. 2:11).

Tout dans ce monde est absurde : la nature est bête, la destinée est simplette, et la vie ne vaut pas un kopeck.

The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about.

Bu dünyada gençlik ve güzelliÄŸin bir anlam? yoktu; birbirinin t?pat?p eÅŸi, ruhlar? görünmez olmuÅŸ bedenlerle dolu uçsuz bucaks?z bir toplama kamp?ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildi yaÅŸad???m?z dünya.

for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless.

cuando gana en una tómbola una bicicleta. Como si los dos supiéramos que nos habían regalado una casualidad enormemente valiosa que, sin embargo, no nos iba a servir para nada.

Tereza, això de la missió és una bestiesa. No tinc cap missió. Ningú no té cap missió. I és un gran alleujament sentir que ets lliure, que no tens cap mena de missió.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

Dreams can range from the meaningless to the prophetic

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

Alas, the historical name is 'actor-network-theory', a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.

At that moment, he knew what death really meant and he was afraid. There was no adventure in it, no sense of purpose or choice, nothing but a sickening disgust and shock. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. Nothing was worth such terrible slaughter—nothing.

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

History has no meaning.

Society women have achieved the wondrous art of contriving thirty variations on a phrase that means nothing even the first time

You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.

The war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it.

And my revulsion wasn't against your religion, but all religions. They're all more or less alike. You can't blame the human race for preferring some bright storyteller's dream or other to the black cold meaningless dark of the real universe.

The trade is meaningless. It is like trading a used mattress for a $300 bill.