Meaningless Quotes
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The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.
William Lane Craig -
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
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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 -
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.
William Hurrell Mallock -
In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.
Peter O'Toole -
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Norman Macbeth -
Dreams can range from the meaningless to the prophetic.
Brandon Mull -
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
Michel Faber
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
Haruki Murakami -
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.
Elizabeth George Speare -
Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.
Barbara Holland -
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Lois McMaster -
If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
Stephen Covey -
Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.
Erlend Loe
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I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.
Daryl Wein -
A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.
Melissa de la Cruz -
Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
Humphrey Bogart -
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
Hu Shih -
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
Ray Bradbury -
Meaningless piety, she knew – but to be always meaningful makes a cold world.
Edmund Crispin