Pointless Quotes - Page 9

• Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.364, Random House

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

  Terry Brooks

  Should Have, May, Might

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

  Nalini Singh

  Life Changing, Wish

  Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook, Sharon Shinn (2011). “Angels of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin

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• What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

  Caitlin Moran

  Depressing, Art, Mean

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

  Erin Hunter

  Thinking, Blood, Battle

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• "You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother."

  Rachel Vincent

  Apology, Support, Burgers

  "Before I Wake". Book by Robert Wiersema, 2006.

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

  Iain Banks

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Dark, Past

  "Oryx and Crake". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2003.

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Maureen Johnson

  Believe, England, Natural

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• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Cost, Should

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

  Abbi Glines

  Fall, Perfection, Twisted

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Memories, Kids

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

  Andrew Marr

  History, Lessons, Facts

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life Is, Greatest Gifts

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• 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.

  Boy George

  Exercise, Records, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.

  Michel Gondry

  Ideas, America, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Understanding, Plausible, Seems

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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• It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Curiosity

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.esquire.com. 1961.

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