“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in… — William Barrett 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 future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of… — Janet Fitch 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
“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
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until… — Maureen F. McHugh 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
“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
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
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is… — Rob Bignell 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
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
