I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not…

“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation; and on…

— Alexander Schmemann

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that…

— Richard Bachman

“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope…

— Stephen Batchelor

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without any difficulty…

— Aldous Huxley

“To understand the people who often talk about the meaninglessness of life, walk amongst the ruins!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your world is the world of coincidence, of meaninglessness. You choose the world that would have us as specks of dust, as mice in…

— Lauren Grodstein

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…

— Aldous Huxley

“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to…

— Gwyneth Lewis

“As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end…

— William Barrett

“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of…

— Adelheid Manefeldt

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.

— Albert Schweitzer