It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.” — Ranata Suzuki 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
“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
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things.” — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Your world is the world of coincidence, of meaninglessness. You choose the world that would have us as specks of dust, as… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they… — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And… — Ravi Zacharias 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
“One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand… — Carl Jung 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 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
“Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.” — Bryant McGill 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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be… — Stanley Kubrick 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
“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
“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
“The melting wax of the candle made me realize that you melted away the meaninglessness out of my life.” — Avijeet Das 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
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image