Quotes About Senselessness

#1. What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Ayn Rand

#3. What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The completely profound senselessness of my own existence explodes into it's own blissful freedom. There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without future there can be no loss.

Carol Cassella

#5. I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You
know what I mean?

Charles Bukowski

#6. Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Ross David Burke

#8. We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

Steven Weber

#9. I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Richard Eberhart

#10. The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Karl Shapiro

#11. It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Max Beckmann

#12. Visigoth and Gaul, politics and plague. She fought on, struggling in tandem with antiquated interpretations and outmoded explanations, wondering at the senselessness of something so strong, so powerful, so immovable fading from history, disappearing, once and for all time, into shadow and dust.

Fiddles McMonkeypants

#13. As a matter of fact, he was anxious and scared because of the complete senselessness and algorism of the situation, of slight but obvious sense of ominous mysteriousness and mysticism in all that.

Sergey Mavreodi

#14. It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

Iris Murdoch

#15. People saw more and more clearly, and now the majority see quite clearly, the senselessness and immorality of subordinating their wills to those of other people just like themselves, when they are bidden to do what is contrary not only to their interests but also to their moral sense.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically defineable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time.

Harold S. Kushner

#17. That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Robert Walser

#18. His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.

Gerhard Roth

#19. It is impossible, for example, while preserving reason, to want senselessness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

Sten Nadolny

#21. God was a maze without a map, a circle without a centre; the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that never seemed to fit together. If only she could solve this mystery, she could bring meaning to senselessness, reason to madness, order to chaos, and perhaps, too, she could learn to be happy.

Elif Shafak

#22. Communication is an artificial, intentional, dialogic, collective act of freedom, aiming at creating codes that help us forget our inevitable death and the fundamental senselessness of our absorb existence.

Vilem Flusser

#23. Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

C.S. Lewis

#24. Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H.P. Lovecraft

#25. Hard-hearted shouldn't need senses.

Toba Beta

#26. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

William Shakespeare

#27. Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think.

Dan Groat

#28. We make junk, we consume junk and we are junk.

Bryant McGill

#29. A random act of violence," his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

Thomas Pierce

#30. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

#31. Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

Bryant McGill