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Quotes About Meaningless

When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.
~ L J Smith
Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
~ Glen Duncan
The function of a friend is not to have a function.
~ Detlef Cordes
Je me demande si ma vie ne sera jamais rien de plus: quelque chose où rien ne sera jamais réalisé, sans victoire, sans signification d'aucune sorte
~ Jack Vance
this phrase was meaningless, for no matter where the Jew wandered, if he took with him the Talmud he was
~ James A. Michener
A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
~ Jane Goldman
I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
~ George Gaylord Simpson
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Theory is meaningless to a genius.
~ Terry Teachout
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
~ Theodore Bikel
in those days, before Gazza, before cynical and meaningless pre-season tournaments which somehow still offer a methadone alternative to the real competitions to come, before the ludicrous freneticism of the contemporary transfer market, the newspapers went weeks on end without even mentioning football)
~ Nick Hornby
They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.
~ Noam Chomsky
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)
~ Norma Fox Mazer
I am nothing, and not even that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's cliché, but you know sorry doesn't actually do anything, right? It's like a birthday card a month after the day has passed. It's just a, a, a… a token, a word that makes you feel like you did something but that doesn't do anything to fill the hole inside of me.
~ Chuck Wendig
It had been in that moment that he had realized the insanity of war, the futile gesture that in time became all but meaningless, the unreasoning rage that must be nursed long beyond the memory of the incident that had caused the rage, the sheer illogic that one man, by death of misery, might prove a right or uphold a principle.
~ Clifford D. Simak
With that, the argument ended, the latest meaningless border skirmish in the long war over what white culture was acceptable and what was not.
~ Colson Whitehead
being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Dass eine berühmte Bibliothek von einer Frau verwünscht wird, ist für eine berühmte Bibliothek völlig bedeutungslos. Ehrwürdig und gelassen, mit all ihren Schätzen sicher an ihrem Busen verwahrt, schläft sie selbstzufrieden und wird, was mich angeht, für immer so weiterschlafen.
~ Virginia Woolf
Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile—what they said, what they did—she said something perfectly commonplace again.
~ Virginia Woolf