We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.” — Anna Jae 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
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold 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'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
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that… — C.G. Jung 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
“Life is only meaningless if we fail to make a resolute effort at achieving bliss, attaining the active state of oneness that… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“When you're unhappy, you either see nothing at all and the world sinks into meaninglessness, or else you see things preternaturally sharply,… — Nicolas Barreau Copy Share Image
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars… — John Silber 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
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
“...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
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
“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
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat… — Tarun Betala 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
“In a world where nothing matters, the most atrocious events are no longer horrifying; the most piteous victims no longer stir our… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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