Quotes About Meaninglessness

Oggi, all'improvviso, sono giunto a una sensazione assurda e giusta. Mi sono reso conto, in un lampo, che non sono nessuno. Nessuno, assolutamente nessuno.

Whirls and whirlpools in the fluid futility of life!

Let us render everything absurd and adorn our sterile hours with more futilities.

Desterrad el error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas o de las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

I, who have eyes that are only for seeing, See an absence of meaning in all things.

The tragic futility of life.

I had always suspected myself of being almost purposeless, of not really having any single serious reason for existing. Now I was convinced, in the face of the facts themselves, of my personal emptiness.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

My life is utterly meaningless

My reflection on life altogether lacks meaning. I take it some evil spirit has put a pair of spectacles on my nose, one glass of which magnifies to an enormous degree, while the other reduces to the same degree.

I would start once again to have strong recurring thoughts that said: life is pointless; everything you're doing is pointless; this whole thing is a fucking waste of time. It would be a thrum of unending anxiety.

al final, de lo que se trata es de lo terrible que resulta hacer algo carente de propósito y sentir que no tienes más remedio que continuar.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

But he saw only dying light and a dead land. He uttered no prayer, believed in no deity, and knew that the past was devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?

Somos, por naturaleza, tan fútiles, que solo las distracciones pueden impedirnos de verdad morir.

I feel that my life is devoid of meaning and I no longer see any reason in the acts I perform or the words I say, and it astonishes me that other people can move about outside this nightmare of mine... that they can act and speak.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.