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Quotes About Pointless

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Thus it is understanding God's grace—that is to say, understanding God himself 178—that demolishes legalism. Grace highlights legalism's bankruptcy and shows that it is not only useless; it is pointless; its life breath is smothered out of it.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
~ Andrew Brown
As time passed, I began to sense that the sleepiness I'd felt—sleepiness so fierce it was almost amusing—was gradually, ever so gradually, draining from my body. My feet were swollen, my room got all messy, dark pockets formed under my eyes. I didn't particularly want the money, the work was pointless, and so it was extremely difficult.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Confrontation was a great idea – unless the odds were so stacked against you that it was pointless.
~ Barbara Delinsky
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
~ barry dave ii
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
~ Barry Lyga
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
~ William Vickrey
Asking why the creature had chosen to give me its bone was pointless. My foolish and unwilling foray into necromancy had made me attractive to such things, as a magnetic is attractive to iron.
~ Sarah Monette
A flower of light pointlessly beautiful.
~ Stephen Baxter
Around and around it went, and what was round had no point, any fool knew that.
~ Stephen King
[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.
~ Anita Diamant, Day After Night
Siempre habías sido especial, pero no te había servido de nada
~ Enzo Maqueira
the tradition discourages attachments to any particular ideas of enlightenment as well as to pointless philosophical or metaphysical speculation.
~ Gil Fronsdal
He's as much use as a melted candle." Groups
~ Gordon L. Rottman
All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing
~ Sebastian Fitzek
She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and all the Imperial favorites. Rivalries and alliances, loathing and attraction had been dissolved. Their existence had been a pointless tragedy, just as the talent of one prodigious poetess had been.
~ Shan Sa
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.
~ Noam Chomsky
Time elaborately thrown away.
~ Edward Young
Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
~ Johnny Depp
Shall we begin that drive in the park? If we do not leave soon, the exercise will be quite pointless. There will be no one else there to criticize, and no one to admire us.
~ Mary Balogh
This is England, he explained. Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
~ Maureen Johnson
And I resented you for that," she went on, "because I've always believed hate is such an unworthy emotion. So weak and ultimately pointless." I marveled briefly at how innocent a life someone would have to have led for such a philosophy to emerge credible and intact, and for a second I loved her for it.
~ Barry Eisler