Pointless Quotes

328 quotes by 284 authors

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. — Barbara Kingsolver
The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and… — David Sedaris
Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree? — Cassandra Clare
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill… — Peter S. Beagle
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one… — Thomas Merton
With a truly tragic delusion,â€ Carl Jung noted, â€œthese theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the… — Carl Jung
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your… — Rajneesh
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. — Haruki Murakami
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest… — Ismail KadarÃ©
But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not… — Patricia A. McKillip
Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish… — Mary Balogh
I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically… — Bill Bryson
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Steig Larsson
A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo... — Russell Brand
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, â€œWitch… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. — Franz Kafka
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do… — Neil Gaiman
I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You… — Deb Caletti
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and… — Gary Shteyngart
A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again. — Lauren Conrad

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