Motiveless Quotes

#1. Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust.

Edgar Saltus

#2. I ago's soliloquy
the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity
how awful it is!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects ... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

Oliver Sacks

#4. Masturbating but did not. He didn't reject the idea so much

David Foster Wallace

#5. I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Miguel De Icaza

#6. As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have the idea that you can find a colour that is better for one composer or another, even if it's an illusion, this generates enormous pleasure.

Maurizio Pollini

#7. What are you doing?" He flops down next to me. "Checking your email?
St. Clair snorts. "Give the lad a medal for his brilliant skills in detection.

Stephanie Perkins

#8. Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Caroline Myss

#9. nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.

Janet Fitch

#11. To a woman
I mean, a nice woman
there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.

Ada Leverson

#12. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.

Colm Toibin