Quotes About Meaningless

This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.

Today was also his two-hundredth birthday, but that was just another meaningless coincidence.

Anyone who even notices, let alone calls attention to the curious, but utterly coincidental and meaningless fact that every world on which the Guide has ever set up an accounting department has shortly afterward perished in warfare or some natural disaster, is liable to get sued to smithereens.

from the tiny spaceport on Easter Island (the name was an entirely meaningless coincidence—in Galacticspeke, easter means small, flat and light-brown) to the Heart of Gold island, which by another meaningless coincidence was called France. One of the side effects of work on the Heart of Gold was a whole string of pretty meaningless coincidences.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Jennie's testimony was meaningless to determine the facts of the case, but that he was allowing it anyway. The judge wanted to see the signing chimpanzee in action.

Most of it meant nothing—the daily output of a grinding bureaucracy speaking to itself.

Nothing makes any sense. Nothing means anything. You're born, you live, you die. That's it.

To 'die to prove that I alone was right' was meaningless, Gandhi said on 5 June

The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn't see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.

don't see the point in a useless emotional exercises.

Le travail est partout où l'on ne fait rien de sa vie.

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop.

Wherever I went, whatever I did, this was what I would come back to. A blank wall in a meaningless room in a meaningless house.

Grenz picked up a ruler and sighted along it, a meaningless gesture which kept him from looking at me.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial.

Oricât de mult am vrea s? credem altcumva, iubirea universal? ÅŸi bun?starea tuturor speciilor laolalt? sunt, din punct de vedere evoluÅ£ionist, concepte f?r? sens.

I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements.

The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.

I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which 'God' appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible." 2 Atheism is as unintelligible and meaningless as theism. There is nothing in the concept of "God" to deny or be skeptical about.