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source: "Nihilism, punk and the international necronautical society: an interview with simon critchley". Interview with Steven Fowler, www.3ammagazine.com. March 30, 2009.

topic: Mean, Nihilism, Affirmation, God Is Dead, Meaninglessness

The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

- Odd Nerdrum

source: Source: sturm-lie.be

topic: Trying, Doe, World, Meaninglessness

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Meaningless, Meaningless Life, Meaninglessness

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

- William Saroyan

topic: Writing, Despair, Age, Enslavement, Meaninglessness

Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Way, Meaning Of Life, Chaos, Meaninglessness

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'

- Paul Baran

topic: Believe, Men, Skills, Meaninglessness

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

- Pascal Mercier

topic: Vanity, Stupidity, Able, Meaninglessness

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistakeâ€“he could no longer get at.

- Tao Lin

topic: Mistake, Loneliness, Long, Meaninglessness

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

topic: Meaningful, Way, Normal, Meaninglessness

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

- David W. Orr

topic: Growing Up, Giving, Humanity, Stature, Modern Age

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.

- Gueorgui Pinkhassov

topic: Running, Lying, Creativity, Meaninglessness

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

- Carl Jung

topic: Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views, Meaninglessness, Conscious And Unconscious

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: People, Want, Perceive, Meaninglessness

I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

- Carl Jung

topic: Men, Thinking, Forever, Meaningless Life, Dissociation

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