Quotes About Pointlessness Of Life

#1. 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

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

Henry Rollins

#3. When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least be trusted with it.

John Moore

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

Garth Ennis

#5. Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

William Shakespeare

#6. [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

Danah Zohar

#7. [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

#8. 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

#9. Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Tina Fey

#10. Victim" and "Volunteer" can often be the two sides of the same coin.

Jose N. Harris

#11. The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jim Berg

#13. A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

Paul Reiser

#14. And he thought: I'm a seed.
He suddenly saw how fertile was the ground into which he had fallen, and with this realization, the terrible purpose filled him, creeping through the empty places within, threatening to choke him with grief.

Frank Herbert

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

Thomas H. Cook

#16. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.

J.D. Salinger

#17. Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#18. One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

Bee Wilson

#19. What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag.

Scott Carrier

#20. This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Isaac Asimov

#21. I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

Katrina Kaif

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

Jacques Vache

#23. I don't see anybody," he whispered to the two figures behind him. "No gates or locks, neither. Do you think maybe they're using invisible barriers or something?

G. Norman Lippert