Pointless Quotes

• Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

  Bill Watterson

  Friday, Cute Life, Sunday

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religion, Atheism, Seems

  The First Three Minutes epilogue (1977)

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

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Moving, Apology

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

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

  Norman Mailer

  Weed, War, Marijuana

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series" edited by George Plimpton, 1967.

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• Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.

  Mick Ebeling

  Stupid, Life Is Too Short, Positive Life

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• Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today, we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.

  Jessica Simpson

  Our World, Appreciate, Focus

  "Jessica Simpson comments on weight-gain onstage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

  Jon Lajoie

  Eye, Fake, Dumb

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• Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

  Molly McAdams

  Heart, Fighting, Want

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• The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

  Georges Seurat

  Inability, Dots, Critics

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Philosopher, Stardust

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• Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  "One Man’s View". Interview, chomsky.info. May, 1973.

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

  Florence King

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

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

  Gunter Grass

  Art, Puritan, Irrational

  New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.

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

  Ezra Pound

  People, Church, Literature

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• 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.

  Mos Def

  Fame, Destination, Streets

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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

  Alister E. McGrath

  Reality, Thinking, Might

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• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Regret, Wish, Too Late

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• God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—

  Malcolm Lowry

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2015). “The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition”, p.306, University of Ottawa Press

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• 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.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Asking Questions, People

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

  Cesare Pavese

  Cry, Born, Dies

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Art, Expectations, Realization

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Birds of America: Stories”, p.136, Vintage

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• Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Numbers

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