Meaninglessness Quotes

41 Meaninglessness quotes by 38 unique authors

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness… — William James
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. — Stanley Kubrick
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. — Paul Tillich
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, — Questlove
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives… — John Silber
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the… — Marianne Williamson
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek… — Leo Tolstoy
They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean. — Rollo May
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov
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
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. — Rajneesh
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. — John Cage
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. — Errol Morris
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and… — Pascal Mercier

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