Quotes About Pointlessness

#1. I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
I want somebody who has a tortured soul ... some of the time

Ani DiFranco

#2. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

Noah Cicero

#3. One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

Franklin P. Adams

#4. We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other.

Joshua Ferris

#5. The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Jil Sander

#6. I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

Rupert Friend

#7. People like us were born to change the world. It's filled with shit. It's filled with people who did the things they did to you. It's filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don't you feel it too?

Laure Eve

#8. [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. He was conscious that his thoughts and feelings were the same utterly unoriginal torments of billions like him: the bewildering indifference of the universe, the pointlessness of suffering, the inescapable obligation to abide with it.

James Howard Kunstler

#10. It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Robert Smith

#11. She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control.

James R. Doty

#12. When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.

Jacques Vache

#14. The pain of aloneness and pointlessness is piercing. It demands relief. That single fact - that the pain of living apart from God is unbearable - exposes our sinfulness as horribly grotesque and foolish. We insist on finding relief without coming to God on His terms.

Larry Crabb

#15. It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

Franz Kafka

#16. Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Florence King

#17. The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

Henry Rollins

#18. The point is that all of life is "pointless" - vanity or emptiness - unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

Jim Berg

#19. Pointlessly musing over the pointlessness of pointlessness personified seemed somehow pointless...

T.C. Filburn

#20. the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.

Charles McCarry

#21. I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

Garth Ennis

#22. I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

Angelina Jolie

#23. Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished.

David Liss

#24. What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

Ashly Lorenzana

#25. Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Everyone has at least one talent. It's just that some talents are pointless.

Andrea Kneeland

#27. Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?
It doesn't.

Ramez Naam

#28. If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

Philip K. Dick

#29. Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#30. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Anonymous

#31. It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was,

Terry Pratchett

#32. I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

Dana Gould

#33. Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me?

Morrissey

#34. At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands.

Thomas H. Cook

#35. Some people were born just so they could be buried.

Donald Ray Pollock

#36. I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

LL Cool J

#37. How will it end? ... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin ...

Carl H. Claudy

#38. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Criss Jami

#39. Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza