Meaningless Quotes - Page 3

• ... 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.

  David Wong

  Wind, Forever, Life Is

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Evil, Design

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• Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

  Bradley Denton

  Happens, Knows

  "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dog, People, Shelter

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Pain, Sacrifice, Lessons

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• Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Understanding, Doe

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• I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important question in anyone's life is the question asked by poor Pilate in Matthew 27:22: 'What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?' No Other question in the whole sweep of human experience is as important as this. It is the choice between life and death, between meaningless existence and life abundant. What will you do with Christ? Accept Him and life, or reject Him and die? What else is there?

  Dale Evans

  Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

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• …God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Quilts, Squares, Design

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• I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

  Kami Garcia

  Tangled, Pockets, Weight

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

  Bill Watterson

  Drama, Disrespect, Battle

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• 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.

  Octavio Paz

  Expression, History, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.172, Arcade Publishing

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• Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

  Orhan Pamuk

  Incidents, Strings, Wells

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.244, Faber & Faber

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

  Steven Morrissey

  Fire, Essentials, Fame

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

  Steven Morrissey

  Mean, Thinking, Hair

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• So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

  James Lovelock

  Development, Drivel, Sustainable Development

  "James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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• All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.

  Charles Yu

  Heart, Ideas, People

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.124, Vintage

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• All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

  Anais Nin

  World, Sacred, Taboo

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Twenties, Syllables

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.60, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• 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.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Successful, Risk, Want

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• Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.

  Antonio Damasio

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Leaving

  Antonio Damasio (2003). “Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.333, Princeton University Press

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• but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Goodness, Minutes, Whole Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.696, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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

  Vaclav Havel

  Might, Causes, Strive

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