Meaningless Quotes
638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors
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We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write…
— Ai Yazawa
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Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless,…
— Alan Watts
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Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard…
— Joseph Brodsky
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You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless,…
— Sándor Márai
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Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that…
— Deepak Chopra
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The…
— William S. Burroughs
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When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet…
— Ellen Hopkins
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She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and…
— Isaac Marion
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and…
— Alan Watts
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
— Albert Einstein
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Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
— Hugh Laurie
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I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
— Sophie Kinsella
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Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection…
— Rick Riordan
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What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
— Iain Banks
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But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in…
— Joan D. Vinge
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting…
— Ian Mcewan
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The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
— Douglas Adams
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Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no…
— Erlend Loe
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Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond…
— Judith Guest
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What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me…
— Erlend Loe
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When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand…
— Erlend Loe
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