“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin 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
“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where” — Irvin D. Yalom 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
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami 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
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley 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
“[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
“We transcend meaninglessness only when we think and act beyond merely trying to satisfy our needs. We become authentic, in part, by… — Josh Korda Copy Share Image
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness,… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for.… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“...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
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
“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
“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
“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
“During the crash and burn, I began to burn from cranial crown to flat sole, for meaning and understanding. Every concept, psychological… — Dew Platt 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
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 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
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer 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
“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
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
“Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things.” — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
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