“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“Life numbed, unceasing, interminable, from zero begins to zero it ends.” — Xiaobo Liu 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
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
“Without Christ, I would be what the world desires and praises. Then I would shudder and fade into eternal meaninglessness. No thank… — Alisa Hope Wagner 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
“Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts… — Henning Mankell 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
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
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
“She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
“Student: Master, I haven't been able to create any meaning in my life, what should I do now? Master: Continue living meaninglessly,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything."-Memories, Dreams, Reflections” — C. G. Jung Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and… — Abe Kōbō 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
“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
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke 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
“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
“Universal meaninglessness gives way to ecstatic inebriation, an orgy of irrationality. Since the world has no meaning, let us live! Without definite… — Anonymous 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
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless that I feel, sort… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image