Pointlessly musing over the pointlessness of pointlessness…

“The pointlessness of motherhood. I’d spent all that time saying, ‘Look both ways’, ‘Don’t go off with anyone’ and ‘Here’s a Haliborange and Omega-3’…

— Kerry Fisher

“We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three…

— Joshua Ferris

I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration…

— Rupert Friend

“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes,…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Franz Kafka

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know…

— Jil Sander

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”

— Philip K. Dick

“In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then…

— Tadatoshi Fujimaki

“So it is official. Life is meaningless. The intellectuals have debated it, and produced conclusions that your feeble brain cannot understand, but only accepts.…

— Hwee Hwee Tan

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

— Henry Rollins

“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was…

— James Jones

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for…

— Anonymous

“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains…

— Joseph Conrad

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of…

— Terry Eagleton