Meaningless Quotes

• I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

  Corazon Aquino

  Life, Death, Wise

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• No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Teamwork, Men

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• Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Truth, Foam

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

  Max Weber

  Culture, World, Infinity

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.115, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Life And Death, Giving, Too Much

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin

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• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Religion, Forgiving

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Guilt

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Thinking

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

  George Orwell

  Love, Romantic, Giving

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.190, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Money, Inspiration, Games

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• Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Running, Life Is Too Short, Connections

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• Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Sports, Religious

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religion, Atheism, Purpose

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• Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Animal

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Purpose, Action

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  Hannah Arendt

  Names, Action

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Simple, Games

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• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Life, Hope, Giving

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• Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

  Robert Bloch

  Long Ago, People, Magic

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.88, The Overlook Press

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• Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

  Alan Watts

  World

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• Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.

  John Lennon

  Foam, Half

  Song: Julia

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• Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.

  Jimmy Reid

  Essence, Government, People

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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