Meaninglessness Quotes

Meaninglessness Quote of the day

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.

If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!

Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.

Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.

Self glory makes life meaningless, glorify God fulfills it

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Her heart is played like well worn stringsIn her eyes the sadness singsOf one who was destined of better things

I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.

He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject.

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!

Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.