Meaningless Quotes

638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as… — Henning Mankell
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means… — Albert Einstein
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause. — Vaclav Havel
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. — Bill Watterson
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. — C.S. Lewis
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone. — C.S. Lewis
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind… — Chuck Klosterman
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. — John H. Groberg
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there… — Christopher Paolini
The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need… — Claudia Gray
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to… — Jeff Lindsay
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… — Truman Capote
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations — Graham Greene
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. — Tim Winton

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