“Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
“Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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… — Michael K Hooker Copy Share Image
“The melting wax of the candle made me realize that you melted away the meaninglessness out of my life.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was… — Adelheid Manefeldt Copy Share Image
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“[Vanity's] an unrecognized form of stupidity... you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be… — Pascal Mercier 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
“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
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
“For here is a man who, in some sense, is desperate, in a frenzy. The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing -… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Life is only meaningless if we fail to make a resolute effort at achieving bliss, attaining the active state of oneness that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence 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
“Her heart is played like well worn strings In her eyes the sadness sings Of one who was destined of better things” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
“To discover we have no story is to acknowledge that our existence is meaningless, which we may find unbearable” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things.” — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come form being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.” — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green Copy Share Image
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