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Quotes About Meaningless

We like to believe the world arcs towards justice--I suppose because it reassures us and makes us think there's some sort of order to our existence. but what if we're wrong? What if it's All meaningless chaos and chance?
~ C.S. Harris
endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone
~ can't remember
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~ Geezer Butler
This means nothing," she said. "Less than nothing," he lied. "I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.
~ Gena Showalter
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless.
~ Irving Stone
The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.
~ Isaac Asimov
The echo of a platitude.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
~ Oscar Wilde
I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~ Geezer Butler
Besides, I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.
~ Susan Orlean
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.
~ Susan Orlean
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
~ Joe DiMaggio
You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.
~ Cass van Krah
It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without a comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes a jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian café or the humanities department of some university extremely well insulated from the real world.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.
~ Neal Shusterman
I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of us weren't even doing little things.
~ Charles Bukowski
But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re
~ Charles Bukowski
It almost seemed like a fuck, maybe better." "It didn't mean anything, it was just dancing.
~ Charles Bukowski
I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.
~ Charles Bukowski
I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all.
~ Charles Bukowski