Quotes About Meaningless

Nothing compares with the paperweight as a bad gift. To me, there's no better way than a paperweight to express to someone, I refused to put any thought into this at all.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.

But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day.

Worship without honor is meaningless

A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless

Democracy requires that alternative visions of society be placed before the people, from which they can choose. But if all political parties have the same policies, namely those approved by capital, then the choice of the people becomes meaningless.

Once you catch on to what clutter is, you'll find it everywhere. Isn't meaningless activity a form of clutter? How many of the power lunches, cocktail parties, social events, and long evenings glued to your screens have been clutter—activities that add nothing positive to your life? What about disorganized days full of busyness with no sense of accomplishment?

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behaviour is meaningless data

The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Fool, he told himself. He had been looking for Keith Rothwell in Robert Calvert's flat. But he wasn't there. He wasn't anywhere; he was just a slab of chilled meat waiting for a man with his collar on the wrong way around to chant a few meaningless words that might just ease the living's fear of death until the next time it touched too close to home for comfort.

What a way to live a life; what, as the other officer said just now, an endless nothing.

Non siete contenti di non vivere in un romanzo di fantascienza, dove ogni azione ha uno scopo ed è coerente, e in un cui il caso non agisce? La capillare sensazione che abbiamo di un universo senza senso è forse ciò che sostiene le nostre vite.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

ferocious and meaningless screams.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

Referring to Bogey's party: A lame excuse for all the idiots in our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless, consumer-driven lives.

I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they were. But once I did, I went all over the place, picking them up. I don't know what to do with them. I mean, they're meaningless now, but they still exist. You can't throw out something like that. You can't make them gone like that.

Dread spilled over the Englishman, dread of a world in which he could not die, a world without fear, a meaningless world. Fear permeated all that he knew to be good in life: love, danger, adventure. That was the secret he carried with him and that carried him along. But why venture without fear? You can lie down in the desert and face the beast or the vulture or the villain and mock his weapons and his desires, but to what end? Without fear, what matter if they bite or peck or stab you?

La vida carecía de sentido y saberlo me atosigaba como a cualquier vecino de un callejón sin salida.

Inezie ci consolano perché inezie ci affliggono.»