quotes about Meaningless
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
-- Alan AldaSource : Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
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Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
-- Alan Watts -
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
-- Albert Camus -
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
-- Alexandra Robbins -
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
-- Bill Crawford -
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
-- Billy Graham -
Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
-- Bradley DentonSource : "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
-- Brent Weeks -
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Without intent all painting is meaningless.
-- Christopher Willard -
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If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
-- David McCullough -
Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
-- Edward Teller -
All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.
-- Emilio Estevez -
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Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
-- Glen DuncanSource : Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.119, Vintage
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
-- Hannah Arendt -
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Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion
-- Haruki Murakami -
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
-- Jesse BallSource : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Apr 11, 2013
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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.
-- John Lennon -
That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
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Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.
-- Michael Catt -
There's no such thing as a meaningless, worthless, or stupid dream.
-- Miyavi -
Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.
-- Rasheed Ogunlaru -
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Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
-- Ray KurzweilSource : Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin
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Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless.
-- Richard Denny -
There are no meaningless experiences.
-- Susan L. TaylorSource : Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.19, Anchor
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God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.
-- T. B. Joshua -
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
-- Thomas NagelSource : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press
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It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours
-- Tim Minchin -
Words without experience are meaningless.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
-- Vladimir NabokovSource : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.255, Vintage
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Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.
-- Werner Erhard -
People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.
-- Gary GiddinsSource : Source: bigthink.com
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The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.
-- Jimenez LaiSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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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 -