Meaningless Quotes

638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may… — Walt Whitman
Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to… — Laozi
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that… — Viktor E. Frankl
When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless. — Marshall Sylver
It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. — Danielle LaPorte
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days,… — Deborah Eisenberg
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act. — Mahatma Gandhi
Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you. — John Lennon
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and… — Dave Grohl
Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. — Bret Easton Ellis
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career.… — Steven Pressfield
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them. — Nelson Mandela
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C.S. Lewis
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source… — Peter Schwartz
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thereâ€™s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me. — Bret Easton Ellis
There's no such thing as a meaningless, worthless, or stupid dream. — Miyavi
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless. — Frances Hesselbein
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I… — C.S. Lewis

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