“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
“To understand the people who often talk about the meaninglessness of life, walk amongst the ruins!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“When you're unhappy, you either see nothing at all and the world sinks into meaninglessness, or else you see things preternaturally sharply,… — Nicolas Barreau Copy Share Image
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars… — John Silber Copy Share Image
“Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything."-Memories, Dreams, Reflections” — C. G. Jung Copy Share Image
The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
“She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Student: Master, I haven't been able to create any meaning in my life, what should I do now? Master: Continue living meaninglessly,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Meaning is primarily a subjective psychological experience. A smart person is more likely than the next person to be aware of its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“In a world where nothing matters, the most atrocious events are no longer horrifying; the most piteous victims no longer stir our… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
