Top 100 Quotes About Pointless
#1. 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
#2. It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.
Stephanie Coontz
#3. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#4. Those who slander others,' Sachish said, 'do so because they love slander, not because they love truth. It's pointless therefore to struggle to prove that a piece of slander is untrue.
Rabindranath Tagore
#5. Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
Vik Muniz
#6. You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.
Jay McInerney
#7. It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
Rachel Vincent
#8. time flowed by like a black river that I watched from a stationary point on some undefined shore. I hovered above everything, clung to nothing, and regarded the world and its inhabitants as figments of a fleeting and pointless dream. The
Matt Cardin
#9. Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Hopelessness is not an emotion to be indulged. On the heels of hopelessness comes defeat, and even though everything seems pointless and impossible, I still want to win.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#13. Once again, he became outraged that humans - more specifically his dad - would rather invest in something pointless than the people right in front of them. Would Earth still suffer and need movements dedicated to its healing if humankind was rooted in reality?
Jesikah Sundin
#15. 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
#16. It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#17. Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Gary Hamel
#18. 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
#19. But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
Zhuangzi
#20. 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
#21. The difference between wisdom and foolishness lies within our dreams. To spend all day dreaming, instead of working to reach our dreams is pointless.
Jose N. Harris
#22. It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson
#23. I don't have to tell you how pointless it is to dwell on the past, sweet pea.
Molly McLain
#24. 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
#25. It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone ...
Cesare Pavese
#26. If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon
#27. All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.
Daria Snadowsky
#28. There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Stephen King
#29. There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.
Cathy Hopkins
#30. The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.
Anthony Bourdain
#31. I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
Jeff Lindsay
#32. To know the answers of one game is useless, to name somebody or something is pointless when they don't reflect when you call him or her.
Deyth Banger
#33. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion
Lynn Crilly
#34. When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us
Sunday Adelaja
#35. It's too risky," said doubters.
"It's too difficult," said scoffers.
"It's pointless," said mockers.
"It's impossible," said haters.
"It's already done," said believers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. The Bible indicates that God will not permit anything to happen that he can't use to bring ultimate good to his people and to glorify himself. That's his promise. Therefore, even the most terrible evil his children endure would not be pointless.
Randy Alcorn
#37. The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks
Thom Yorke
#38. Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
Nalini Singh
#39. You should try dating nice guys," her friend Ludy used to say in high school. "They're nice. I think you'd like them."
"Boring," Georgie'd said. "Pointless."
"Not pointless
nice.
Rainbow Rowell
#40. Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.
David Foster Wallace
#41. No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.
Greg Egan
#42. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.
Anonymous
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Return now to these studies and they will keep you safe. They will comfort you, they will delight you; and if they will genuinely penetrate your mind, never again will grief enter there, or anxiety, or the distress caused by futile and pointless suffering.
Seneca.
#46. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Frank Herbert
#47. Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#48. 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
#49. Without a clear destination in view, the challenges on the journey seem pointless.
Michael Hyatt
#50. We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.
Adele Devine
#51. It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon
#52. And when I don't feel it, it's pointless.
Think about getting up it's pointless.
Think about eating it's pointless.
Think about dressing it's pointless.
Think about speaking it's pointless.
Think about dying only it's totally
fucking pointless.
Sarah Kane
#53. Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed, as death approached her. It was odd, she thought, that they had dragged her here, left her overnight and then decided to kill her.
It seem such a pointless way to die.
John Flanagan
#54. Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
Aldous Huxley
#55. Writing that is not understood is pointless.
Divya Chawla
#56. 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
#57. The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg
#58. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa Gregory
#59. I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.
Marilyn Manson
#60. Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.
Tarek Saab
#61. Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.
Isabel Allende
#62. You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
Tara West
#63. It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
Maurice Allais
#64. Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
Simon Jordan
#66. 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
#67. The point is that all of life is "pointless" - vanity or emptiness - unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.
Jim Berg
#68. Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless - discuss.
J.K. Rowling
#69. The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.
Robbie Robertson
#70. Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
Howard Gardner
#71. Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard ... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
The Edge
#72. 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
#73. Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.
Bill Bryson
#74. Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#76. Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.
Matt Haig
#77. I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
Sara Gruen
#78. Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Gunter Grass
#79. It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.
Jewel
#80. Not to be rude, but it was all pointless," I noted from across the room. Four eyes narrowed at me. "What? I said 'not to be rude'. That's like saying 'God bless them' right after you say bad things about someone. It means it doesn't count!
Molly Harper
#81. 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
#82. All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#83. 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
#84. She walked up to him, put her arms around his middle and kissed him. "Like I said, I think the game is pointless anyway. We're not showing signs, so hopefully we're in the clear." Mark couldn't have talked if he'd wanted to. He leaned down and kissed her, and this time the kiss was much longer.
James Dashner
#85. It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?
Gregory Palamas
#86. 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
#87. Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
Daniel H. Wilson
#88. You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother.
Rachel Vincent
#89. We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless.
Targassat of Surang.
Karen Traviss
#91. In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Jacques Ellul
#93. He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.
Stephen King
#94. I've heard plenty of wacky things in my time and you just have to learn to roll with them without directly challenging the person spewing the weirdness. Challenging weirdness is a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise.
Susan Ee
#95. Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom.
Tim Collins
#96. I take a swig of wine. A big one. It's pointless. There's not enough wine in the world for this.
Leisa Rayven
#97. There are many pitfalls in life; one is dwelling on blame.
It's pointless. Move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
Boy George
#99. I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless.
Simon Jordan
#100. 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
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