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Quotes About Meaningless

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
~ Timothy Keller
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
~ Ray Bradbury
recluse, I have begun to understand, is not a person for whom a connection with another person is unattainable or meaningless, but one who feels she must abstain from people because a connection is an affliction, or worse, an addiction.
~ Yiyun Li
What a tragedy that would have been, living an interchangeable life, looking for interchangeable excitements.
~ Yiyun Li
Tamamen bilimsel bir bak?? aç?s?yla bilebildi?imiz kadar?yla, insan ya?am?n?n hiçbir anlam? yoktur. ?nsanlar belirli bir amac? olmayan ve körlemesine ilerleyen evrimsel süreçlerin sonucudur ve faaliyetlerimiz ilahi bir kozmik plan?n parças? de?ildir.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I don't believe in casual sex, because meaningless sex is mad boring and frankly, in this day and age, not worth the risk.
~ Zane
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!
~ Zhuangzi
When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.
~ Dennis Cooper
When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.
~ Dennis Cooper
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.
~ Oswald Mosley
Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.
~ Jennifer Egan
He was of no more consequence than an empty cigarette packet.
~ Jennifer Egan
By now it was afternoon. Ted began to walk, still dazed, until he found himself among a skein of backstreets so narrow they felt dark. He passed churches blistered with grime, moldering palazzi whose squalid interiors leaked sounds of wailing cats and children. Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time." (p. 212)
~ Jennifer Egan
It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.
~ Emily Giffin
Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.
~ Emma Donoghue
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This
~ Eric Hoffer
And for many of the other questions, the answers I received were cloaked in the sort of highly polished public relations vagueness that makes responses so measured and couched in nuance that they are essentially meaningless.
~ Ammon Shea
Here I am now, this green drinking glass before me, my heart heavy. Can it be that life begins with scenes like this? Can it be that we live out complete lives as children, drinking down our lives in one go, only to repeat ourselves stupidly, blindly, meaninglessly?
~ Ana María Matute
We talk about things. We talk about nothing.
~ Andre Agassi
Practice without improvement is meaningless.
~ Chuck Knox
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
~ Ingmar Bergman
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
~ Jean Monnet
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.
~ Ernst Mach