Meaningless Quotes

• 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
  • Pages
  • Saws

• It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Universe
  • Meaningful
  • Normal

• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  

  Karim Rashid
  • People
  • Desire
  • Moments

• Words without experience are meaningless.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Meaningless

• If the actions of Hitler, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, anyone who had ever existed or would ever exist, were all meaningless, then surely sitting down next to Brandy Beltmeyer was equally meaningless.

  

  Chad Kultgen
  • Actions
  • Jesus Christ
  • Hitler

• 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
  • Taking
  • Meaningless
  • Imbalance

• Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Problems
  • Meaningless
  • Go Away

• Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Choices
  • Engaged
  • Crucial

• When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.

  

  Stanley Spencer
  • Quality
  • Feelings
  • Special

• Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

  

  George Eastman
  • Children
  • Company
  • Would

• Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Meaningless
  • Exertion
  • Consumes

• Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

  

  Dan Morgenstern
  • Suffering
  • Despair
  • Without

• Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Pain
  • Existence
  • Anxiety

• Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Care
  • Feels
  • Force

• People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Meaningless

• Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Absurd
  • Meaningless

• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  

  William Gibson
  • Moving
  • Leaving
  • Impossible

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

  

  Bradley Denton
  • Death
  • Know
  • Meaningless

• It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Truth
  • Name
  • Meaningless

• But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Risk
  • Doubt
  • Darkness

• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Science
  • Provide
  • Human Individuals

• When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

  

  Michael Huffington
  • God
  • Money
  • Moment

• One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Between
  • Having
  • Theoretical

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