Quotes About Meaningless

Killing without reason or gain was a petty pleasure of sadistic fools.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless.

The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure.

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, not as the ultimate horizon of all humanly produced meaning. That is to say: to restore sex in its dimension of the Real.

one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, not as the ultimate horizon of all humanly produced meaning. That is to say: to restore sex in its dimension of the Real.

Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?

I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I learnt something very inmortant. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment i boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed." (The Beach)

We simply forget all this—so busy are we, so immersed in our daily preoccupations—and because we forget, we fail. And through this forgetfulness, failure, and sin, our life becomes "old" again—petty, dark and ultimately meaningless—a meaningless journey toward a meaningless end. We manage to forget even death and then, all of a sudden, in the midst of our "enjoying life" it comes to us: horrible, inescapable, senseless.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

Fidler himself was a personable young man who'd been a New Labor MP till "the sheer meaningless gab of it" had driven him to resign and spend more time with his money by becoming a TV personality.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Alternativa" é a palavra da moda para fazer importante o que não tem nenhum significado. Ela serve para enfeitar um misto de misticismo medieval, bobagem herbalista, lixo dietético, brinquedos elétricos, superstição, sugestão, ignorância e pura fraude.

What did it matter what he did? Life would be equally purposeless no matter what his decision was.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.