Quotes About Purposeless

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

I can't be happy going out if it's not . . . going anywhere.

This is something Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens wrote, or whatever: To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art.

And why is it when attacked I rarely spoke out or seemed overly upset? Well, given the malignant chaos of a purposeless universe, what's one little false allegation in the scheme of things? Second, being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.

either humanity, with all its culture, is a means for the unconscious, unreasonable, and purposeless world-power, or it is a means for the glorifying of God.

I lacked both community and purpose.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.

Als Christin hatte sie sich zugehörig gefühlt. Nach ihrem Austritt aus der Kirche war sie unendlich frei gewesen, aber auch ohne Halt in einem Universum ohne Zweck.

Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in the world; I am no longer a father!

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

It's not pregame'n if you have absolutely nowhere to go & nothing to do afterwards. Thats just simply gettin drunk & being a loser

thought. Lumpish. And the word came to me: feckless.

history has no overall direction or purpose

Between Two Ages laid out Brzezinski's vision of what U.S. society would be like. The U.S. he wrote "is now in an information revolution based on amusement focus, spectator spectacles (saturation coverage by television of sporting events), which provide an opiate for an increasingly purposeless mass.

That feeling you get when you suddenly realize that you were fighting for nothing all along.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

The world is full of abandoned meanings.

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.

Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

The men had nothing to live for, so they got drunk and drove off at ninety miles an hour in a car without lights, without brakes, and without destination, to die a warrior's death.

We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life—this unflinching regularity in the smaller wheels and meaner mechanism of the human machine, which knows no stoppage or cessation, though the mainspring be forever hollow, and the hands pointing to purposeless figures on a shattered dial.