Existence Is Meaningless Quotes

#1. When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all?
On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

Erlend Loe

#2. And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon enough reveals underlying unpalatable truths about existence - our insignificance, our meaningless existence, our inexorable progression to deterioration and death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#3. At birth man is offered only one choice
the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Jean-Pierre Melville

#4. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl

#5. I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

Roger Ebert

#6. This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.

John Kennedy Toole

#7. One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

Jonathan Frid

#9. He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don't understand about human existence, and there is order and purpose to it anyway. It helps us feel that our suffering is not random or meaningless." Yet

Sheryl Sandberg

#11. One can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

George Lakoff

#12. Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.

Joshua Foa Dienstag

#13. The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

James Dobson

#14. I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

Rajneesh

#15. My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

Sting

#16. I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!

Ruta Gedmintas

#17. Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless

Sunday Adelaja

#18. He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.

Nachman Of Breslov

#19. Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled
welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

Josh Lanyon

#20. 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 Alda

#21. We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglass.

Blake Crouch

#22. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Alvaro De Campos

#23. Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#24. Listen," I sighed and reached for my plastic bottle. "I want to get this sh!t over and done. Can we strive to obtain that goal? I have a meaningless existence, and I can't put that kind of action on hold indefinitely

J.A. Saare