Quotes About Meaninglessness

We must learn to accept that there is no meaning to life, but this raises the question whether life is worth living at all – which he saw as the fundamental question of philosophy.

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism

she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe

What if nobody was still around who even faintly remembered your past life there? In that case, your entire existence upon the planet Earth held no more lasting meaning than a random pebble tossed into a pond: the few ripples were soon gone, leaving no mark. In a zero-sum world, your life might as well not have been lived.

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters—it is all the same.

can you see what I see? No I don't think you can I can see images of nothing and I attempt to make that nothingness into something As hard as I try there is still nothing and that nothing is meaningless I am somewhere else now, outside I am surrounded by people and the blueness of the sky but still nothing has changed Everything remains the same I am still alone

I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so far away that you didn't care about it? You were floating through space and time, and nothing that happened to you mattered because nothing really could happen to you because you didn't exist?

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

At night, too, the demons came. I faced my greatest fears: those of meaninglessness—no hope, no future, no God, no purpose. Self-doubt and accusation rumbled in my head like thunder in a canyon.

The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure 'Victorian fictions.' All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.

vamos, que el sistema del espectáculo, obligado a producir un consenso repugnante, se había venido abajo hacía mucho tiempo bajo el peso de su propia insignificancia.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Lonely people move in the void of nonsense.

By living this way, what will my fortune be? There is nothing. Am I simply a sickly man? What should I do? I had no direction, nothing. I thought that this reckless life of mine was only a nuisance to others and devoid of meaning. This was quite hard to bear.

Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated world, of the Western European eighteenth-century dream of a universally secular, materialist and peaceful civilization.

If you ever see a war," she says, not lookng up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appal you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning." "War makes monsters of men,

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were on the other side of one of those holes, you were free of yourself, free of your life free of your death, free of everything that belonged to you.

Sonunda her hayat, nedeni belirsiz olgular?n toplam?ndan, rastlant?sal kesi?melerin, rastlant?lar?n, kendi amaçs?zl?klar?ndan ba?ka bir ?ey aç??a vurmayan geli?igüzel olaylar?n kayd?ndan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

La única persona con la que sabía cómo comportarme era conmigo mismo; pero verdaderamente yo ya no era nadie, no estaba realmente vivo. Sólo era alguien que fingía estar vivo, un muerto que

On the folk religion level, the problem of death often has less to do with what happens to the person who has died than with the pain and meaninglessness that death brings for the living. How can the living deal with the devastation caused by the death of a loved one?