Quotes about Meaningless

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Votes: 4

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. Votes: 4

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Votes: 4

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. Votes: 4

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. Votes: 4

Meaningless yards are not meaningful. Votes: 3

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes. Votes: 3

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle. Votes: 3

That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle. Votes: 3

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. Votes: 3

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones. Votes: 3

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. Votes: 3

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. Votes: 2

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion Votes: 2

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. Votes: 2

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities. Votes: 2

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility Votes: 2

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant. Votes: 2

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. Votes: 2

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened. Votes: 2

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you. Votes: 2

Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything. Votes: 2

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Votes: 2

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. Votes: 2

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. Votes: 2

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. Votes: 2

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. Votes: 2

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. Votes: 2

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them. Votes: 2

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. Votes: 2

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person. Votes: 2

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. Votes: 2

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. Votes: 2

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. Votes: 2

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river. Votes: 2

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. Votes: 2

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. Votes: 2

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless. Votes: 2

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. Votes: 2

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. Votes: 2

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. Votes: 2

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. Votes: 2

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Votes: 2

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Votes: 2

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm. Votes: 2

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. Votes: 2

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. Votes: 2

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. Votes: 2

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless. Votes: 2

Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society. Votes: 2

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. Votes: 2

Mean people are meaningless. Votes: 0

Practice without improvement is meaningless. Votes: 0

Physics without mathematics is meaningless. Votes: 0

Words without experience are meaningless. Votes: 0

Scenery without solace is meaningless. Votes: 0

There are no meaningless experiences. Votes: 0

Money without meaning is meaningless Votes: 0

Life is so meaningless without trouble. Votes: 0

Is it meaningless to apologize? Never. Votes: 0

Without intent all painting is meaningless. Votes: 0

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel. Votes: 0

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless. Votes: 0

Without struggles, success would be meaningless. Votes: 0

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. Votes: 0

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless. Votes: 0

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless. Votes: 0

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations Votes: 0

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless. Votes: 0

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. Votes: 0

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless. Votes: 0

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered. Votes: 0

If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. Votes: 0

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny. Votes: 0

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. Votes: 0

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. Votes: 0

Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless. Votes: 0

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. Votes: 0

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. Votes: 0

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within. Votes: 0

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless Votes: 0

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits. Votes: 0

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible. Votes: 0

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless. Votes: 0

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within Votes: 0

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. Votes: 0

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless. Votes: 0

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts. Votes: 0

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. Votes: 0

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless. Votes: 0

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. Votes: 0

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party. Votes: 0

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless Votes: 0

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. Votes: 0

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. Votes: 0

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. Votes: 0

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. Votes: 0

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know. Votes: 0

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept? Votes: 0

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind. Votes: 0

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity. Votes: 0

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Votes: 0

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point. Votes: 0

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. Votes: 0

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. Votes: 0

Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful! Votes: 0

It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours Votes: 0

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a meaningless, worthless, or stupid dream. Votes: 0

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. Votes: 0

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. Votes: 0

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. Votes: 0

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other. Votes: 0

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away. Votes: 0

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Votes: 0

How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe, Votes: 0

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Votes: 0

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless. Votes: 0

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless. Votes: 0

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering. Votes: 0

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. Votes: 0

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. Votes: 0

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful. Votes: 0

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! Votes: 0

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. Votes: 0

What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts. Votes: 0

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless Votes: 0

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. Votes: 0

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part. Votes: 0

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too. Votes: 0

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless. Votes: 0

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. Votes: 0

... military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ... Votes: 0

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. Votes: 0

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do. Votes: 0

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. Votes: 0

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. Votes: 0

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up? Votes: 0

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents Votes: 0

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die. Votes: 0

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. Votes: 0

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless. Votes: 0

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets. Votes: 0

Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless. Votes: 0

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. Votes: 0

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. Votes: 0

People don't follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless. Votes: 0

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, Votes: 0

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. Votes: 0

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living Votes: 0

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less! Votes: 0

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism Votes: 0

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit. Votes: 0

Sex, that's meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that's heavy. That's like an hour. Votes: 0

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism. Votes: 0

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless. Votes: 0

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events Votes: 0

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. Votes: 0

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. Votes: 0

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. Votes: 0

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Votes: 0

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless. Votes: 0

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS. Votes: 0

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. Votes: 0

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Votes: 0

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. Votes: 0

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. Votes: 0

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. Votes: 0

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return... Votes: 0

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. Votes: 0

Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation? Votes: 0

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. Votes: 0

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. Votes: 0

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. Votes: 0

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event. Votes: 0

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. Votes: 0

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds Votes: 0

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Votes: 0

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless. Votes: 0

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless. Votes: 0

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless. Votes: 0

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup? Votes: 0

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair. Votes: 0

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair. Votes: 0

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. Votes: 0

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless Votes: 0

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. Votes: 0

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. Votes: 0

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless Votes: 0

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed. Votes: 0

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. Votes: 0

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. Votes: 0

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent Votes: 0

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless. Votes: 0

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. Votes: 0

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. Votes: 0

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. Votes: 0

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours. Votes: 0

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Votes: 0

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. Votes: 0

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. Votes: 0

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. Votes: 0

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless. Votes: 0

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. Votes: 0

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it. Votes: 0

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless. Votes: 0

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people. Votes: 0

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. Votes: 0

I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me. Votes: 0

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. Votes: 0

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . . Votes: 0

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. Votes: 0

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. Votes: 0

The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. Votes: 0

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. Votes: 0

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless Votes: 0

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. Votes: 0

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them. Votes: 0

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. Votes: 0

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. Votes: 0

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant. Votes: 0

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment. Votes: 0

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause. Votes: 0

Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise. Votes: 0

Happiness has a simple recipe. Cherish your dearest, welcome your nearest, admire the simplest, honor the littlest, ignore the meaningless. Votes: 0

You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless. Votes: 0

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. Votes: 0

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. Votes: 0

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. Votes: 0

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. Votes: 0

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. Votes: 0

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. Votes: 0

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace. Votes: 0

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. Votes: 0

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead. Votes: 0

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. Votes: 0

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. Votes: 0

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. Votes: 0

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. Votes: 0

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure. Votes: 0

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Votes: 0

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. Votes: 0

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace. Votes: 0

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real' Islam. Votes: 0

Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. Votes: 0

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! Votes: 0

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless. Votes: 0

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all. Votes: 0

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act. Votes: 0

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Votes: 0

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. Votes: 0

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers "” and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, Votes: 0

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. Votes: 0

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ. Votes: 0

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are. Votes: 0

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information Votes: 0

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) Votes: 0

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. Votes: 0

NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. Votes: 0

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. Votes: 0

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. Votes: 0

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. Votes: 0

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question. Votes: 0

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Votes: 0

The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. Votes: 0

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. Votes: 0

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. Votes: 0

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. Votes: 0

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it. Votes: 0

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. Votes: 0

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. Votes: 0

And yet in too many cases, this is what business has been reduced to: the artful packaging of meaningless distinctions as true differentiation. Votes: 0

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. Votes: 0

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. Votes: 0

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. Votes: 0

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. Votes: 0

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless. Votes: 0

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless. Votes: 0

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. Votes: 0

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery Votes: 0

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Votes: 0

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. Votes: 0

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. Votes: 0

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole. Votes: 0

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless. Votes: 0

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. Votes: 0

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. Votes: 0

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other. Votes: 0

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing. Votes: 0

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things. Votes: 0

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up. Votes: 0

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. Votes: 0

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless Votes: 0

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Votes: 0

one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful Votes: 0

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope. Votes: 0

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times. Votes: 0

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being. Votes: 0

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star Votes: 0

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless. Votes: 0

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders. Votes: 0

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies. Votes: 0

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls. Votes: 0

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs. Votes: 0

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. Votes: 0

To speak of limits to growth under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. Votes: 0

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. Votes: 0

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Votes: 0

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me. Votes: 0

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless. Votes: 0

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love. Votes: 0

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. Votes: 0

Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless. Votes: 0

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport. Votes: 0

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live Votes: 0

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. Votes: 0

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. Votes: 0

If it helps you. I forgive you. But i have learned in recent weekd that seeking forgiveness from others is meaningless unless you can forgive yourself. Votes: 0

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments. Votes: 0

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless. Votes: 0

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. Votes: 0

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little "˜why'. Votes: 0

I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention. Votes: 0

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it? Votes: 0

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life. Votes: 0

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers. Votes: 0

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities. Votes: 0

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless. Votes: 0

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines. Votes: 0

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition. Votes: 0

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die! Votes: 0

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term. Votes: 0

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless. Votes: 0

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it. Votes: 0

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. Votes: 0

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things. Votes: 0

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Votes: 0

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end. Votes: 0

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk. Votes: 0

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty. Votes: 0

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all. Votes: 0

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person." Votes: 0

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together. Votes: 0

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw. Votes: 0

Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless. Votes: 0

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want. Votes: 0

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. Votes: 0

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless. Votes: 0

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. Votes: 0

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads. Votes: 0

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at. Votes: 0

Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway. Votes: 0

Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing. Votes: 0

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything. Votes: 0

A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something. Votes: 0

How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness. Votes: 0

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce. Votes: 0

and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away. Votes: 0

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it? Votes: 0

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman. Votes: 0

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. Votes: 0

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning. Votes: 0

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. Votes: 0

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so. Votes: 0

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind. Votes: 0

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless. Votes: 0

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism Votes: 0

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness. Votes: 0

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people. Votes: 0

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget. Votes: 0

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled. Votes: 0

The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality. Votes: 0

The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless. Votes: 0

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless. Votes: 0

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. Votes: 0

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work. Votes: 0

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with. Votes: 0

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many. Votes: 0

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. Votes: 0

Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items." Votes: 0

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth. Votes: 0

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair. Votes: 0

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black. Votes: 0

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless. Votes: 0

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. Votes: 0

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. Votes: 0

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. Votes: 0

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. Votes: 0

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face. Votes: 0

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. Votes: 0

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them. Votes: 0

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline. Votes: 0

I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless. Votes: 0

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion. Votes: 0

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless. Votes: 0

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. Votes: 0

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. Votes: 0

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'... Votes: 0

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you. Votes: 0

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise. Votes: 0

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place. Votes: 0

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. Votes: 0

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there. Votes: 0

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before. Votes: 0

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life. Votes: 0

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before. Votes: 0

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less. Votes: 0

You can do so much in 10 minutes time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity. Votes: 0

This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing. Votes: 0

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. Votes: 0

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. Votes: 0

People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7! Votes: 0

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Votes: 0

Our purpose is to provide you the way to the answer within that alone can fill the meaningless void. The way to the way is inward, where salvation has awaited your coming for 2000 years. Votes: 0

Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower. Votes: 0

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life. Votes: 0

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act. Votes: 0

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless. Votes: 0

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless. Votes: 0

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. Votes: 0

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart. Votes: 0

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' Votes: 0

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth. Votes: 0

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully! Votes: 0

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story. Votes: 0

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it. Votes: 0

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown. Votes: 0