Life Seems Meaningless Quotes

#1. Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

Diane Ackerman

#2. Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Samantha Power

#3. I want to break the rules with you. Kiss you passionately every day. Make you smile when you're about to cry. I want no regrets with us. I want us to laugh together until we can't breathe and it hurts. No man will ever love you the way I'm going to love you, Emily. You're it. My last. My forever.

Gail McHugh

#4. Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

Oscar Robertson

#5. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#6. I love a red lip - red is one of my favorite colors, and I really don't wear many other lipstick colors than red.

Kendall Jenner

#7. I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Hari Kunzru

#8. The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Alexander Wang

#9. The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

Lloyd Alexander

#10. My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Beverly Sills

#12. Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

Steve Tesich

#13. Every click of the cosmic clock
brings us closer to the process
for which the planet called us into existence.

Terence McKenna

#14. Never be ashamed of your patriotism.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#15. Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Diane Ackerman

#16. Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

Grace Lee Boggs

#17. I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

James Rosenquist

#18. Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong ... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

Peter Drucker

#19. Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.

Sonya Hartnett