“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami 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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“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
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course,… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and… — Arianna Huffington 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
“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
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
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
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett 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
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
“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
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
[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 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
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a… — Rush Limbaugh 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
We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“what overwhelms is not the meaninglessness of the universe but the coexistence of an apparent meaninglessness with the astonishing interconnectedness of everything.” — Brian Philips 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung 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
“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
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