Meaningless Quotes - Page 26

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

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Affirmation, Form

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• A name with meaning could bring up a child,
  Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
  Better a meaningless name, I should say,
  As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
  Name children some names and see what you do.

  Robert Frost

  Children, Hands, Names

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.241, Everyman's Library

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• The physical world is meaningless tonight
  And there is no other.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Tonight, World

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each other, accidental, meaningless, a jumble, just a chance phenomenon. If you see the truth, everything falls into line, everything falls together in a harmony, everything starts having significance.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Truth, Fall

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Stories, Empty

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• Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Meaningful, Men

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

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Social, Concern

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

  William Gibson

  Real, Cyberspace, Pages

  "No Maps for These Territories". Documentary, 2000.

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• Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Violence, Defence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• 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.

  Tucker Max

  Stuff, Kind, Realizing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Night, Years, Anxiety

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Suffering

  Source: home.online.nl

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• 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.

  Xavier Dolan

  Taken, Character, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Sweet, Struggle, People

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• 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!

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Payback, Life Is

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Mean, Hands, Community

  Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Baseball, School

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• The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Space, Imagination

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• I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Science, Doctors

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

  Pam Brown

  Garden, World, Fruit

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• When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

  John Gardner

  Kindness, Thoughtful, People

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• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

  Paul Johnson

  Meaningful, Today, Used

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

  Wade Davis

  Memories, Past, Axes

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