Pointlessness Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King
When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness. — Karl Lagerfeld
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a… — Noah Cicero
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire. — Franklin P. Adams
The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why… — Jil Sander
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. — Robert Smith
If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! — Philip K. Dick
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens… — Christopher Hitchens
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short… — Hermann Hesse
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

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