Meaningless Quotes

638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. — Alan Watts
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except… — John Thomas Sladek
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I… — Tony Dungy
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do… — Erich Fromm
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer… — Eric Temple Bell
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson
All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless. — Pat Conroy
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… — William Saroyan
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. — Naguib Mahfouz
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. — Anwar Sadat
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution -… — Rob Morrow
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply… — Jimmy Reid
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way,… — Scarlett Thomas
I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards… — Jacki Weaver
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel… — Susan Faludi
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. — Max Weber
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. — Nick Denton
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was… — Peter Medawar
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other… — Ernst Mach
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only… — Hu Shih
I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because… — Yehuda Amichai

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