Senseless Quotes
189 quotes by 166 authors
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Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.
— Joss Whedon
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Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile…
— Neal Stephenson
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And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step…
— Antonin Artaud
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Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can…
— C.S. Lewis
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Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
— Max Born
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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of…
— Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
— Albert Einstein
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Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we…
— Gore Vidal
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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity…
— Jerry Bridges
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them…
— Laura Mennell
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All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
— Vladimir Putin
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I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading…
— Lucy Hawking
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Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify…
— Susan Estrich
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
— Thomas Lynch
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If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
— Jamie Kennedy
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