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- 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… — William James
- The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live… — Ben Okri
- My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Marianne Williamson