Pointless Quotes
328 quotes by 280 authors
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I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps…
— Alan Moore
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
— Ezra Pound
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It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance…
— Paul Simon
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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally,…
— Tom Stoppard
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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal,…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
— Bill Watterson
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The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
— Steven Weinberg
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all…
— Neal Stephenson
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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either…
— Nick Hornby
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from…
— Yann Martel
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got…
— Dorothy Allison
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Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless…
— Stephen King
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes…
— Billy Joel
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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He…
— Gore Vidal
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
— Haruki Murakami
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It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
— Ayn Rand
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
— Kate DiCamillo
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
— John Gardner
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