Top 100 No Meaning Quotes
#1. Love is when you find something so great, so ... necessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.
Dan Wells
#2. I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.
Jess C. Scott
#3. There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.
Damon Galgut
#4. To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#5. Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
Arvo Part
#6. As Bush said, after detailing some of Saddam Hussein's charming practices: "If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning." It's not as if anyone is worried that we're making a horrible miscalculation and could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.
Ann Coulter
#7. This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.
Rebecca Wells
#8. There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning ...
Emily Carr
#9. Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.
Hina Hashmi
#10. Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.
Will Durant
#11. A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn't.
Albert Camus
#12. Wealth or health will hold no meaning for you if you lack happiness.
Helga Klopcic
#13. Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
James Anthony Froude
#14. Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.
Sathya Sai Baba
#15. By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.
Werner Heisenberg
#16. Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.
Paulo Coelho
#17. My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
Pete Maravich
#18. If you rightly see the division, it is simple to understand: unless instinct is available, you will be dead. And unless intuition is available, your life has no meaning - you just drag on. It is a kind of vegetation.
Osho
#19. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?
Wes Moore
#21. She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone.
Virginia Woolf
#22. If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
John Owen
#23. Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis Presley
#24. It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones work together. I just liked the shapes of the k, a, w, s. It has no meaning.
KAWS
#25. It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. One
Margaret Atwood
#27. If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.
Peter Singer
#28. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.
Bethany Hamilton
#29. I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed him so that food had no taste and art had no beauty and life had no meaning.
Annabel Joseph
#30. The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
Nirmala Srivastava
#31. Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.
Rei Kawakubo
#32. Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
Osho
#33. No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment and I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
Ellen Hopkins
#34. If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
Bernie Siegel
#35. It is impossible to write history without some vision of its meaning from which judgments of significance can be made. And if there is no meaning, why be a historian? The
Lesslie Newbigin
#36. Do you mind telling me what you pray?"
"I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."
"And have you?"
"No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it.
Katharine McMahon
#37. Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.
Stephen Jay Gould
#38. Ah! I--to you, Petrovitch, this--" It must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever.
Nikolai Gogol
#39. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
Margaret Atwood
#40. The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner
#41. Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it's everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.
Kitty Thomas
#42. There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
Wm. Paul Young
#44. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Alan Moore
#45. Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.
Neale Donald Walsch
#46. Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning ... because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.
Hiromu Arakawa
#47. If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.
Lewis Carroll
#48. I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
Raymond Chandler
#49. Yet I felt it was unfair to be labeled when I had yet to find a label for myself, and when binary, fixed identities held no meaning or safety for me.
Carrie Brownstein
#50. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.
Betty Smith
#51. Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.
Henri Poincare
#53. Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
Ashley Greene
#54. Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Albert Camus
#55. Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#56. If in the men who are supposed to be good they only see a "virtue" which is effectively less vital and less interesting than their own vices they will conclude that virtue has no meaning and will cling to what they have although they hate it.
Thomas Merton
#57. The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land
Aldo Leopold
#59. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
#62. Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.
Mohammad Khatami
#64. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#65. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
#66. You have stopped the arrow of time ...
There's no meaning to this rhyme ...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you ...
Megan McCafferty
#67. predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.
Morris Kline
#68. Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Hence, in shorthand, the meaning of a statement is the injunction of its enactment. No injunction, no enactment, no meaning. That is, mere metaphysics.
Ken Wilber
#70. Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
Hans Blix
#71. This life has no meaning to me now. Do not grieve for me, my dear. Up until the moment I lost her, I had a wonderful life. These moments now are the ones that are hard. I'm eager to depart this world and rejoin her in the next. Then, and only then, will I finally be at peace.
Rose Wynters
#72. Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
Pat Conroy
#73. The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
Truman Capote
#74. One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning
Neil Gaiman
#75. My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.
Stephenie Meyer
#76. It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.
Ben Moreell
#77. The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life's pretty good. It really is.
Elon Musk
#78. To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
Peter Ackroyd
#79. The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. I had not celebrated that brother and sister. I had mocked them. I had exploited their sorrow. I had tried to make them part of a hopeful message on the state of the Union. To be black is to be the actor. To be white is to be the critic.
Don DeLillo
#81. Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.
Cormac McCarthy
#82. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.
Emil Cioran
#83. Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.
Stephenie Meyer
#84. Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
#85. An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.
Gerald Brommer
#86. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
Irvin D. Yalom
#87. Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#88. Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering
Andrew Solomon
#89. If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
Naguib Mahfouz
#90. Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
Sheila Jeffreys
#91. When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
Marty Rubin
#92. For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.
David Berman
#93. If the mind can find no meaning, then the senses give it. Live for this, wretched being that you are.
Anne Rice
#94. We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver
#95. I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.
Karl R. Popper
#96. Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
Pablo Casals
#97. Et if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.
Henry Ford
#98. My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
#99. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
Albert Camus
#100. I should imagine that space-time as we now know it will hold no meaning for me at that stage of evolution. I'll be a chick magnet.
Brian Clevinger
