Meaningless Quotes - Page 31

• God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

  T. B. Joshua

  Activity

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

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Violence, Existential, Behavior

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.9, SUNY Press

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

  Moses Finley

  Understanding, Sake, Waste

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• Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

  Laozi

  Pride, Blessing, Helping Others

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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

  Marshall Sylver

  Agreement, Firsts, Break

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• Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Change, Thinking, One Day

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• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

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• Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

  Steven Pinker

  Goal, Concepts

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

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Emotion, Language, Show Me

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

  Ann Coulter

  Twilight, Mean, Sleep

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• 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.

  Susan Moody

  Giving, Goes On, Ends

  Susan Moody (1998). “Return to the Secret Garden”, G K Hall & Company

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• Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

  Ann Leckie

  Mean, Choices, Wish

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• All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

  Havelock Ellis

  Spiritual, Lying, Winning

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Breakfast, May, Meaningless Life

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• 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.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Meaningless Things, Doing Me, Want

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• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Dark, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

  Haruki Murakami

  Exertion, Persons

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• Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Dissociation, Meaningless Life

  "Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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