Top 100 Quotes About Pointless Life
#1. Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
Maria V. Snyder
#2. How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust.
Hermann Hesse
#4. I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
Sara Gruen
#5. And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
Morrissey
#6. Change isn't a choice; it's already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion ... you can't avoid change; you ARE change. The question is whether you will EMBRACE the power of change to enhance your life or continue to exhaust yourself in the pointless endeavor to halt it.
Steve Maraboli
#7. Pointless, needless suffering pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and the mortal passes away
Cassandra Clare
#8. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Wendell Berry
#9. The biggest problem is that stress is above my life, as much I have more stress as more masturbate commmands me. I see it's pointless, it loses time, it's useless and so on and so on... but some how it's difficult to stop it!
Deyth Banger
#10. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
#11. Because without the lows, the highs would
seem pointless.
A.P. Sweet
#12. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. Mulliken
#13. Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.
Emile Zola
#15. You shouldn't be wasting your time worrying about what's going to happen after you die. It's pointless. Think about what's happening now. In your life. That's what's important. So change the subject, will you?
Clare Furniss
#16. Without a clear destination in view, the challenges on the journey seem pointless.
Michael Hyatt
#17. I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.
Russell Means
#18. What happened to us? We go parties now, and we've nothing to say to each other 'til we're fucked. And even then. We spend hours talking about parties from before, things that happened to us once, we spend life retelling life and it's pointless and boring.
Kate Tempest
#19. Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection.
Haruki Murakami
#20. ...people only hear what they are able to, so it's pointless to tell them anything else
Randy Davila
#21. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.
Chirag Tulsiani
#22. I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
Haruki Murakami
#23. The point is that all of life is "pointless" - vanity or emptiness - unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.
Jim Berg
#24. There are many pitfalls in life; one is dwelling on blame.
It's pointless. Move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called me is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel like everything I've ever done in life has been a total waste.
Haruki Murakami
#26. No one has anything to get up for. Life's pointless and everyone just gets up anyway. That's how the human race works," she says, and hands me a coffee.
Cath Crowley
#27. The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.
MacDonald Harris
#28. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.
Gregory Bassham
#30. Everything about you makes me crazy," he said, thrusting harder. "I can't think of anything without you at the edges. Everything I see is a reminder of you. My life was empty, yet sufficient a month ago. Now, it's pointless without you.
Bijou Hunter
#31. That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of it. Full of violence and pain, with not much but disappointment and hardship in between.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. Of course, being angry is pointless. Unproductive. They don't understand yet. That they are all waiting for that one phone call that will change everything. That every one of them will feel like me eventually. Because someone they love will die. It's one of life's cruel certainties.
Cynthia Hand
#33. Life was short. We weren't promised tomorrow. Wasting what time we did have on hating others or hating the paths we were given was pointless. We should embrace it and make the best of it.
Abbi Glines
#34. In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
Abbi Glines
#35. Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
Rick Springfield
#36. Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
Glen Duncan
#37. As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch
#38. Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?
Chelsea Fine
#39. I would know something was missing. I would know my life was pointless, even if I never understood why. Even if we'd never met, even if you never existed, I would still love you beyond all reason for the rest of my life.
Aimee Carter
#40. Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
Robert Greene
#41. It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.
Tim Winton
#42. I told you it's pointless talking about ifs and if nots. But...I do think it's nice if there could come a time where we could have fun talking about if and if nots, no matter how pointless it is...You know, I feel really happy right now. I'm so glad I was able to meet you in this life. Thank you.
Inio Asano
#43. ... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.
Irvine Welsh
#44. It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
Yann Martel
#45. To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.
Susanna Tamaro
#46. The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#47. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
Rick Warren
#48. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.
Holly Bourne
#49. It seems that all the wondrous influences that have coalesced to produce myriad life forms are irrelevant and can be trashed at will in a pointless race to produce ever more things ever more quickly.
Tony Wardle
#50. There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Stephen King
#51. Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
Nalini Singh
#52. Pointless, needless suffering & pain? I don't suppose it would help it I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all this is mortal passes away. - Magnus
Cassandra Clare
#54. Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what limit is set to acquisition and to the growth of genuine pleasure
Seneca.
#56. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)
Kate DiCamillo
#57. All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable.
John Cusack
#58. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
#59. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. hey babe did it hurt when you fell from heaven haha ? hey babe did you see a god in heaven haha ? hey babe is there even a god at all?? Does life have a point????Babe?????? Or are we all just pointless machines in an uncaring universe ???????????? Babe ???????????
Unknown
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
Billy Joel
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. ... 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. All life is precious and pointless, she thought.
C.J. Anderson
#78. I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.
Matthew Healy
#79. My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
Tom Stoppard
#80. Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.
Charles Cumming
#81. Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.
Stefan Zweig
#83. What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Terry Brooks
#84. It seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life.
Kim Fielding
#85. Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.
Rika Yokomori
#86. I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
Billy Joel
#87. Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
Osho
#88. Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.
Salman Rushdie
#89. Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
John Updike
#90. Worrying about life's circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#91. Life is a constellation, the individual moments in our lives seem so pointless sometimes; but when you look at the whole picture, you can see that those little moments formed memories.
Alex Rogers
#92. Life Without Work
To do nothing
In this day and age,
When so much pointless work
Is being produced,
Could almost be considered an achievement.
It all compares most unfavorably
With my own imaginary
Body of work.
John Tottenham
#93. Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.
John Berger
#94. And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me - I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.
Rachel Ward
#95. A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
Wendell Berry
#96. She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.
Terry Goodkind
#97. words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs,
Cath Crowley
#98. Might have, could have, may have, should have - the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
Terry Brooks
#99. If she wasn't careful, she might end up convinced that life was worth living, and that would cause her pointless pain, since she would soon have to leave this world anyway.
Paulo Coelho
#100. Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise.
Jerica Barsht
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