Most Pointless Sayings

#1. but she studied classics, the most pointless subject in the university.

Natasha Pulley

#2. Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Alfred Schnittke

#4. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

Graham O'Connell

#5. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

Jon Lajoie

#6. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?

Genevieve Dewey

#7. I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

Johnny Depp

#8. For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Charles Palliser

#9. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.

Rob Brezsny

#10. ... The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Brian Greene

#11. Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.

Eden Butler

#12. Revenge was personal as a rule. Otherwise it was pointless.

Charles Todd

#13. History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr

#14. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.

Tiger Woods

#15. Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Isaac Marion

#16. Attempts to control complex systems by using the kind of mechanical, reductionist thinking championed by thinkers from Newton to Taylor - breaking everything down into component parts, or optimizing individual elements - tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

Stanley McChrystal

#17. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman

Huston Smith

#18. I let out a string of curses that would put even the boy's locker room to shame, ending with an emphatic kick to the mailbox post.And the worst part was of coure it wasn't there yet. My weird nerves all day were pointless.

Kiersten White

#19. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

Andrew Solomon

#20. Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought - to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

Leszek Kolakowski

#21. The wall of silence that had instantaneously sprung between us was strong, deafening. I could not concentrate, having a sudden surge of emotions about all relationships being mawkish and pointless.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#22. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Janet Malcolm

#23. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#24. You need to wait until you are worthy of having a child of your own.' She pats her hair down, which is rock hard. Her action is pointless, but she's worried about appearances as usual. 'And someone like you who's responsible for killing my babies - your own siblings - is not worthy.

Rebecca Berto

#25. And every night I thought of you. Now that I can no longer see you, I realise how much I need you. Everything seems pointless since you left.

Haruki Murakami

#26. In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

#27. So love - aside from being pointless - was agony. Love was a soul-eating demon. Love was the most terrible feeling in the world.

J.T. Geissinger

#28. This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence, and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly.

Garth Stein

#29. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

Michel Houellebecq

#30. If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

David Brooks

#31. There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.

Tariq Ramadan

#32. You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

Joy Browne

#33. The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Georges Seurat

#34. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

Santha Rama Rau

#35. Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Richelle Mead

#36. I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.

Ian Somerhalder

#37. People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in Garden State. I guess it makes sense, though. It gives people a chance to hope that they can become as great as me someday.

Zach Braff

#38. It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

Shams Tabrizi

#39. Nothing is ever perfect. There is always some good in the bad and some bad in the good. What is important is to know if the good can make up for the bad. Fight only for those things that matter. Because otherwise after a point the battle will seem pointless.

Mansi Soni

#40. Regret is a pointless emotion unless you learn something from it.

BJ Harvey

#41. A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton

A. Lee Martinez

#42. Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

Adam Faith

#43. [In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

V.S. Naipaul

#44. I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless.

Caitlin Moran

#45. Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems. Other

Anne Lamott

#46. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Simone De Beauvoir

#47. Communication is pointless and we're all doomed.

Frank Portman

#48. I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

Billy Joel

#49. I like being alive, even if it's occasionally a real struggle and fairly pointless in the grand scheme of things.

Nina George

#50. It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.

Ramez Naam

#51. And Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them. He

Hugh Howey

#52. The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

Sean Carroll

#53. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Stephen King

#54. Apology is pointless. Apologies are for when you forget something. Or bump into somebody. Apologies are for accidents. You can't apologise for something you chose to do. That's like apologising for being you.

Steven Camden

#55. Hindsight is pointless, Arnuff," said the other man in the room, who was equally as old as the first. "Bring me one of those," he said, referring to the drink Arnuff held. Arnuff poured another bourbon and brought it to the coffee table.

J.T. Bishop

#56. I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

Nicole Polizzi

#57. And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

Bruno Schulz

#58. It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Lemony Snicket

#59. The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

John Updike

#60. Life is pointless. Love is pointless. And still, wouldn't I do every second of it all over again?"
"I'm guessing yes."
"Undoubtedly. Yes.

Kiera Cass

#61. Rebellion can seem pointless to those whom have never had to fight for what they need, or would like. Privilege is not always kindly given.

Cheri Bauer

#62. Final exams,huh? It seems pointless to think about real life again."
"I find test taking relaxing," she said.
"I'm not surprised. You probably study.

Kimberly Karalius

#63. Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

Mos Def

#64. traveling as a pointless luxury, like blowing the rent check on a pink suit.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#65. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

#66. My search for wisdom, peace of mind, and an awareness of realities visible and invisible has become routine and pointless.

Paulo Coelho

#67. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Kenneth Tynan

#68. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#69. Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana.

Debra Ferreday

#70. If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

Alister E. McGrath

#71. Consider this only pointless ritual if it eases you and cools you to do so. Like church.

Stephen King

#72. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#73. Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

James Earl Jones

#74. It's not that we have more patience as we grow older, it's just that we're too tired to care about all the pointless drama

Karen Gibbs

#75. Love is painful, pointless and overrated.

L.J.Smith

#76. Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

D.H. Lawrence

#77. There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

Alexei Panshin

#78. Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."
Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Erin Hunter

#79. It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Paul Hoffman

#80. Don't make excuses. They're pointless.

Shannon A. Thompson

#81. Laws change so often it seems pointless to keep track of the fiddly ones. 'Don't kill' is the big one. Everything else is moral decoration.

T.W. Brown

#82. A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding.

Terry Fallis

#83. No, the frigid, cold, empty thing that lives inside me showed up the day after my mother died. It told me it was pointless to care about people. It told me it was useless to consider what they think or feel or desire out of life.

Callie Hart

#84. They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.

Darren Shan

#85. Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Lawrence Block

#86. Intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.

Arkady Strugatsky

#87. Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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John Milton

#88. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless

Steven Weinberg

#89. We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

Richard Paul Evans

#90. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Seth Godin

#91. Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

Sarah Mayberry

#92. Used to be you could see the orange glow of the hi-intensity arc-sodiums from North Conway, but no more. Now there's just the White Mountains, looking like dark triangles of crepe paper cut out by a child, and the pointless

Stephen King

#93. Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

Gwendoline Riley

#94. Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#95. I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.
I figured life must be about what you can't have.
Some part of me has given up wanting anything.
Why? I'm human, aren't I?
Even though I knew that this was pointless.
Why did I fall in love?

Kou Yoneda

#96. Judging a story by the ending alone, or life by its death alone, is as pointless as judging a long hike through the mountains by the fact that when you get back to where you parked your car, there's a pit toilet full of you know what and beer cans.

Emily Henry

#97. We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober either. Our exact positioning between these two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#98. Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Tom Hodgkinson

#99. His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless

Mitch Albom

#100. It's pointless to spend millions on advertising before ensuring that the promise keepers (employees) understand and can keep the promises made by the promise makers

Ian P. Buckingham