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
“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
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man."… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember?… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to… — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre Copy Share Image
We hide death as if it were shameful and dirty. We see in it only horror, meaninglessness, useless struggle and suffering, an… — Senoraroy 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
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces… — Marianne Williamson 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
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the… — Thomas Merton 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
“Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation;… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
“The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us. I took up the theme again that music… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I resent that the hours seem boring now, emptier. Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“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… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov Copy Share Image
“Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
“Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it… — James Campion Conway Copy Share Image
“...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing… — William James Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“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
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
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
![“I resent that the hours seem boring now, emptier. Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness. [...] This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.” quote by David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca5/david-levithan-67_time_i-resent-that-the-hours-seem-boring-now_1998177.jpg)
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