Meaninglessness Quotes

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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
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable… — Tao Lin
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of… — William Saroyan
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness. — Janet Fitch
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the… — Hermann Hesse
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lostâ€“a heart no bigger than a speck… — Anne Rice
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green
Weâ€™re going to die and not even know. Weâ€™ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we… — Anne Rice
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why… — Ravi Zacharias
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of… — Koushun Takami
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only… — Kurt Vonnegut
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and… — Richard Flanagan
We hide death as if it were shameful and dirty. We see in it only horror, meaninglessness, useless struggle and suffering, an intolerable scandal, whereas… — Senoraroy

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