Meaningless Quotes - Page 21

• Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Mean

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.119, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

  David Gemmell

  Dark, Fighting, Dust

  20 Copy quote

• I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mtv, Stuff, Worldly

  8 Copy quote

• If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

  Alan Watts

  Black, Calling, World

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.76, Random House

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Battle, Friendship Love, Literature

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.297, Atlantic Books Ltd

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Piercings

  23 Copy quote

• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  33 Copy quote

• Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Rights, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

  214 Copy quote

  Show source

• Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Freedom, Home

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Important, Movement

  David Jeremiah (2007). “Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really Matters in Life”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Stories, Deep Meaning

  9 Copy quote

• If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, People, Achievement

  67 Copy quote

• Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Answers, Helping

  31 Copy quote

• A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

  Roy H. Williams

  Matter, Economy, Heard

  7 Copy quote

• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

  74 Copy quote

• Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Reality, Color, Political

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  7 Copy quote

• To always trust my instincts, to always believe I have something to offer — no matter how meaningless or stupid it may be — and to never listen to anyone who tells you ‘no.’

  Chelsea Handler

  Stupid, Believe, May

  4 Copy quote

• Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

  Peter Drucker

  Data, Marketing, Action

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.5, Harper Collins

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

  Murray Rothbard

  Libertarian, Speak, Silent

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.83, NYU Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.

  Richard Marcinko

  Death, Sacrifice, Fighting

  Richard Marcinko (2010). “Red Cell”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Eight, Government

  15 Copy quote

• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Significant Things, Feelings, World

  "The Non-Objective World: Suprematism" by Kazimir Malevich, 1927.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

  Federico Fellini

  Reality, Fire, Rose

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

  38 Copy quote

  Show source