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• Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mean, Golf

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• A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

  Bill Watterson

  Drama, Disrespect, Battle

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• The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.

  Elliott Sober

  Reality, America, Example

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

  Vaclav Havel

  Might, Causes, Strive

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• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.333, Princeton University Press

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• I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Successful, Risk, Want

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• They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Twenties, Syllables

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.60, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

  Anais Nin

  World, Sacred, Taboo

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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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• I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sorry, Sadness, Air

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

  Michael Ende

  Adventure, Character, Tears

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• This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.

  Shiro Amano

  Kingdom Hearts, Effort, Darkness

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• ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Cutting, Order

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• Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling in with them and stuff like that. But on the playground, kids would come up to me and say, "I need three Supermans and a Captain Midnight by four o'clock because I'm going to sell them to somebody else." So I'd take all their lunch money and whip these things out, and they'd have to stick them in their underwear to get the pictures home, because if the teacher ever found out about that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Teacher, Fall, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Unreal

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Coincidance: A Head Test”

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• Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

  Julie Taymor

  Creativity, Air, Receiving

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• I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Religious, Thinking, Law

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• Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

  Jane Smiley

  Writing, Icons, Reminders

  "In the beginning" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  Abdallah II

  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• [T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life.

  Julius Evola

  Children, Satisfaction In Life, Giving

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• I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Free Time

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.765, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Believe, Together, Goes On

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  Clarence Day

  Life, Stars, Dark

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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Race, People, Achievement

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