Pointless Quotes

328 quotes by 284 authors

God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks — Thom Yorke
If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,… — David Foster Wallace
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children — Madeleine Bunting
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little… — Joao Magueijo
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory… — Terry Brooks
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit… — Lucian Freud
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress. — Banksy
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what… — Gerhard Richter
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. — Andrew Solomon
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better… — Werner Heisenberg
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't… — Georges Perec
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. — Gunter Grass
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself… — Jerry Seinfeld
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in… — Susan Blackmore
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with… — Shirley Jackson
I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me,… — Marilyn Manson
I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. — Alexa Chung
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my… — Michael Vick
It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to… — Stuart Wilde

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