Quotes about Pointless

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Votes: 4

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question. Votes: 4

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant. Votes: 3

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all. Votes: 3

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. Votes: 3

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Votes: 3

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable. Votes: 3

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow. Votes: 3

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. Votes: 3

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. Votes: 3

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Votes: 3

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question. Votes: 3

Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, "Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless "” discuss. Votes: 3

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. Votes: 3

Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise. Votes: 3

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. Votes: 3

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. Votes: 3

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. Votes: 2

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. Votes: 2

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart Votes: 2

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again. Votes: 2

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. Votes: 2

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: 2

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God? Votes: 2

There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it. Votes: 2

The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might. Votes: 2

There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy. Votes: 2

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless. Votes: 1

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing. Votes: 1

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. Votes: 1

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Votes: 1

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. Votes: 1

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Votes: 1

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful. Votes: 1

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. Votes: 1

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. Votes: 1

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up. Votes: 1

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless. Votes: 1

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. Votes: 1

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished. Votes: 1

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood. Votes: 1

You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless. Votes: 1

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity. Votes: 1

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Votes: 1

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless. Votes: 1

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time. Votes: 1

Losing composure is pointless. Votes: 0

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. Votes: 0

Regret is such a pointless emotion.. Votes: 0

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Votes: 0

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks Votes: 0

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless. Votes: 0

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion Votes: 0

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. Votes: 0

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. Votes: 0

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless. Votes: 0

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift. Votes: 0

Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree? Votes: 0

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone... Votes: 0

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention. Votes: 0

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless, Votes: 0

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems. Votes: 0

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. Votes: 0

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. Votes: 0

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless. Votes: 0

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche. Votes: 0

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Votes: 0

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo... Votes: 0

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. Votes: 0

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. Votes: 0

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up. Votes: 0

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why. Votes: 0

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. . Votes: 0

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless. Votes: 0

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me. Votes: 0

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless Votes: 0

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. Votes: 0

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless. Votes: 0

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Votes: 0

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. Votes: 0

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless. Votes: 0

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs Votes: 0

I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless. Votes: 0

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe. Votes: 0

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind? Votes: 0

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable. Votes: 0

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless. Votes: 0

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful. Votes: 0

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. Votes: 0

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. Votes: 0

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. Votes: 0

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there. Votes: 0

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating. Votes: 0

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities. Votes: 0

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. Votes: 0

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless Votes: 0

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. Votes: 0

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young. Votes: 0

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof. Votes: 0

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Votes: 0

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. Votes: 0

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now. Votes: 0

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children Votes: 0

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won. Votes: 0

Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings. Votes: 0

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. Votes: 0

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. Votes: 0

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else. Votes: 0

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. Votes: 0

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology. Votes: 0

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. Votes: 0

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. Votes: 0

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless. Votes: 0

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning. Votes: 0

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration. Votes: 0

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. Votes: 0

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. Votes: 0

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. Votes: 0

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth. Votes: 0

Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless Votes: 0

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come. Votes: 0

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again. Votes: 0

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. Votes: 0

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest. Votes: 0

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless Votes: 0

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? Votes: 0

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Votes: 0

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. Votes: 0

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. Votes: 0

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth~? Votes: 0

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do. Votes: 0

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. Votes: 0

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time? Votes: 0

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry. Votes: 0

Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them.” Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle? Votes: 0

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. Votes: 0

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise. Votes: 0

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. Votes: 0

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. Votes: 0

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long. Votes: 0

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out. Votes: 0

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out. Votes: 0

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right. Votes: 0

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time. Votes: 0

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with. Votes: 0

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless. Votes: 0

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. Votes: 0

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. Votes: 0

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless. Votes: 0

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless. Votes: 0

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion. Votes: 0

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. Votes: 0

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus. Votes: 0

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately. Votes: 0

gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier. Votes: 0

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress. Votes: 0

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. Votes: 0

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do 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

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Votes: 0

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless. Votes: 0

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. Votes: 0

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. Votes: 0

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. Votes: 0

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous. Votes: 0

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason. Votes: 0

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. Votes: 0

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless. Votes: 0

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. Votes: 0

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise. Votes: 0

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless. Votes: 0

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something. Votes: 0

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe. Votes: 0

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive. Votes: 0

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It's a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you'll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism. Votes: 0

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death? Votes: 0

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't. Votes: 0

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. Votes: 0

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding. Votes: 0

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless. Votes: 0

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences. Votes: 0

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion. Votes: 0

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? Votes: 0

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer. Votes: 0

I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘follower’ is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life, Votes: 0

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes. Votes: 0

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman Votes: 0

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. Votes: 0

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific. Votes: 0

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless. Votes: 0

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is. Votes: 0

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell. Votes: 0

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot. Votes: 0

If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague... It's just pointless and deadly. Votes: 0

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head. Votes: 0

Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for "˜Get Out, Leave Family.' Votes: 0

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job. Votes: 0

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth. Votes: 0

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside. Votes: 0

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Votes: 0

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them. Votes: 0

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating. Votes: 0

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that. Votes: 0

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.' Votes: 0

Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. Votes: 0