Quotes About Purposelessness

#1. Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...

Ada Louise Huxtable

#2. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.

Matthew Kelly

#3. Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but ... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#4. A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

Theodore Kaczynski

#5. Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation

Dambudzo Marechera

#6. People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer

#7. This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

Jane Rule

#8. Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#9. take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.

Eric Hoffer

#11. In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.

George Gilder

#12. Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

Ravi Zacharias

#13. Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Joe Slovo

#14. If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

S. N. Goenka

#15. She might get lonely at times. But that was to be expected. The only way to stop those feelings was to live a life devoted to others. That was her true purpose in life. She was a mere background character in other people's lives.

Lily George

#16. Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.

Suzanne Selfors

#17. I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Park Geun-hye

#18. The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Richard M. Weaver

#19. Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Brian Eno

#20. Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly and abjectly purposeless.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.

Rhea Perlman

#22. You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. ~Aladdin

Jessica Khoury

#23. a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

David Johansen