Senseless Quotes

189 quotes by 166 authors

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is… — John Locke
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is… — Ayn Rand
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the… — John Hodgman
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The… — Tadeusz Borowski
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. — Jack Canfield
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the… — Charles Bukowski
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of… — Virginia Woolf
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and… — Paulo Coelho
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to… — Charles Bukowski
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except… — C.S. Lewis
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no… — Erich Maria Remarque
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished… — Albert Einstein
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless… — Hilaire Belloc
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love… — Graham Greene
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill,… — Charlie Huston
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel… — Michael Jackson

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