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Quotes About Meaningless

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.
~ Lydia Davis
Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.
~ John Kennedy Toole
This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
~ Eric Temple Bell
My heart may be beating but it doesn't mean I feel alive.
~ Unknown
A life without challenges or obstacles is meaningless Or worthless.
~ Unknown
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
The witnesses and detectives fold and unfold this towel many times, always with a certain solemnity and formality, as if it were a flag. But the flag of what country, I cannot say. Some dark crescent of land, a place where suffering is essentially meaningless, where the present collapses into the past without warning, where we cannot escape the fates we fear the most, where heavy rains come and wash bodies up and out of their grave, where grief lasts forever and its force never fades
~ Maggie Nelson
It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
we are seized by the urge to weep For one who died for nothing.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.
~ Marc Bloch
We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
~ Marcel Proust
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little why.
~ John Steinbeck
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
~ Tucker Max
Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Life spent with someone for a lifetime may be meaningless. But a moment spent with someone who really loves you is more than life itself.
~ Unknown
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
~ Albert Einstein
a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.
~ Marcel Proust
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~ Marianne Williamson
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~ Marianne Williamson
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
~ Bergen Evans