Purposeless Quotes

36 quotes by 28 authors

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day. — Peace Pilgrim
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand,… — Helen Keller
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. — Alfred North Whitehead
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless… — Alan Watts
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this… — Lawrence M. Krauss
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar… — David Levithan
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. — George Gaylord Simpson
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This is a day not of celebration but of national memory. It's a day when we learn, and learn again, of the horror of purposeless… — Bob Carr

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