Meaningless Existence Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

Brian Boyle

#6. The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

John Kennedy Toole

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass ... to stand up against such social evils

Kailash Satyarthi

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

George Lakoff

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

Joshua Foa Dienstag

#17. Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

Sepp Blatter

#18. 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

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

Sting

#20. Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

#23. 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

#24. If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts ... No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve ... If we love, we begin to serve

Mother Teresa

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I don't have paparazzi following me. Because I'm a human character, it's different. The vampires get a lot of attention, and then the werewolves, and then the humans. It hasn't really changed that much for me.

Tinsel Korey