Top 100 Senseless Quotes
#1. This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer
#2. I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
George Grosz
#3. Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
John Blair
#4. Working together, as parents, neighbors, and law enforcement officials, we must dedicate ourselves to preventing senseless violence in our communities.
Corey Mitchell
#5. Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?
T.F. Hodge
#6. Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
Martin Luther
#7. Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
Lynsey Addario
#8. 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
#9. Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?
Primo Levi
#10. Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
Sergei Dovlatov
#11. I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
Lucy Hawking
#12. I'd like to take a cat to your back and then fuck you senseless.
Tamsen Parker
#13. Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#14. Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.
Dale Carnegie
#15. I'm a pleaser, Melony. I'm a woo-er. I'm a romantic who knows how to fuck you senseless.
Meghan Quinn
#16. almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#17. And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
Gary Numan
#18. Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Polly Toynbee
#19. I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense.
Suzy Kassem
#20. For every hero, a thousand cowards," said Hel. "For every brave death, a thousand senseless ones.
Rick Riordan
#21. I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we're both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.
Jennifer Ashley
#22. Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
Leigh Hunt
#23. Confounding woman. He wanted to drag her close and kiss her senseless.
Meljean Brook
#24. The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.
Bruno Schulz
#25. Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.
Aldous Huxley
#27. It was a senseless, evil thing to do. Still, evil like that is everywhere in this world, mountains of it. I can't understand it, you can't understand it. But it's there, no question. You could say we're surrounded by it.
Haruki Murakami
#28. I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.
Vladimir Nabokov
#29. Sometimes his expired faith in rational logic revives itself long enough to believe in points ... but in the end he always ends up feeling like an asshole for thinking any of the pain he either inflicts or endures has meaning beyond the senseless fact of its existence.
Anthony Marra
#30. Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
Timi Nadela
#31. And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?
Emil Cioran
#32. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.
Steve Erickson
#33. I could fuck you senseless right here, right now, and give the women watching orgasms. That, sweetheart, is how good I am.
Tabatha Vargo
#34. Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler
#35. If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
Paavo Nurmi
#36. There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble minded.
Richard Matheson
#37. Fallon, you're my Achilles Heel. I want to fuck you senseless, until you feel me imprinted on you even when I'm not inside you. But that's all I want - all I can allow myself.
Naima Simone
#38. Open your eyes, sweetheart. I want you to see who's fucking you senseless.
Scarlett Dawn
#39. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born
#40. It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll
#41. Torture is senseless violence, born in fear ... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#42. Emma wanted a real man's hands on her body. Big and rough hands belonging to a strong, tough man who would grab her and throw her onto a bed where he'd spread her thighs wide, yank her head back by the hair, and kiss her breathless while loving her until she was senseless.
Cat Johnson
#43. Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
#45. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.
Greg Egan
#46. Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.
Lucretius
#47. His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They are frightening, and you can never anticipate the turn of their minds or the extent of their greed. They are in fact criminals uncaught by society.
Manoucher Farmanfarmaian
#48. Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
C.S. Lewis
#49. Should I go back to my room tonight?" Ty asked out of the blue. "Or will we be able to work together and fuck each other senseless at the same time?
Abigail Roux
#50. On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tom Lantos
#51. Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel De Montaigne
#52. If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
Jamie Kennedy
#53. When reality becomes too senseless to make sense, the human mind will sometimes create its own
Chris Carter
#54. Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
Ben Affleck
#55. If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Belva Lockwood
#56. [She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
Virginia Woolf
#57. At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
#58. She accused him of not thinking she was enough for him? The woman was entirely too much for him! She made him want to bellow with rage and hit things, then lock her in a room and kiss her senseless, until she gave in.
Sarah MacLean
#59. Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.
Ellen Raskin
#60. Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#61. History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Claudio Magris
#62. You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.
S.w.collins
#63. I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley
#64. But the sky! The sky is blue. Its limpidness is not marred by a single cloud. (How primitive was the taste of the ancients, since their poets were always inspired by these senseless, formless, stupidly rushing accumulations of vapor!)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#65. Are you a dreamer or a doer? Hopefully you are both because a dream with no action is just a dream and a plan with no ending goal is senseless direction. Follow and accomplish your dreams with a plan of action!
Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
#66. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
Tupac Shakur
#67. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.
Terry Brooks
#68. The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper
#69. The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
Ashleigh Brilliant
#70. Once a war is underway the process of deceit continues with regard to the troops who return with broken bodies and broken minds, especially when the wars were never justified. Admitting that the wars are senseless and in vain is too much to bear.
Ron Paul
#71. It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .
Tom Hodgkinson
#72. Come beloved, and sit at the gate of Nothingness, God will bring you bread without the taste of bread, Sweetness without the honey or the bee, And when the future and past are dissolved There will only be you, lying senseless like a lute On the breast of God. - Rumi
Ian Gawler
#73. There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
Elena Ferrante
#74. No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!
Jane Austen
#75. What had he called himself? A stupid, crazy, illogical, senseless, rampantly jealous ass. Damn right, he was a stupid ass ...
Wait, that wasn't the relevant part she should remember.
Thea Harrison
#76. I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
Jonas Mekas
#77. The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
Dave DeBronkart
#78. It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from the
Lord, Who created heaven and earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. The look on his face in that moment made my legs shake and my core clench. I was pretty sure Sebastian Badd was about to fuck me senseless.
Jasinda Wilder
#80. Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened.
Philip Roth
#82. I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
Albert Einstein
#84. Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#85. He looked down at her, finding it difficult to resist the urge to climb over her prone body and kiss her senseless. "Would you mind telling me why you were drinking pear brandy in the middle of the afternoon?"
"Because I couldn' open the sherry."
His lips twitched.
-Marcus & Lillian
Lisa Kleypas
#86. Which takes more courage: to rigidly and inflexibly defend a principle, or to demonstrate a sense of perspective and willingness to compromise or walk away from a senseless argument?
Thomas J. Harbin
#87. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#88. Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#89. The homeless are still homeless and the poor are still poor but yet we still find billions and billions of dollars to fund senseless Wars & Space Programs. Sadly ... such is the way of the Asinine politician!
Timothy Pina
#90. Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?
Louise Penny
#92. Carl reckoned that it was none of his affair until his life was on the line. Even if these two blokes shagged each other senseless every chance they got, he didn't see how that really affected him.
Abigail Roux
#93. The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.
Ludwig Von Mises
#94. He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod
#95. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#96. Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!
Robin Wayne Bailey
#97. Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn
#98. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with the scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.
Neal Shusterman
#99. Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Anthony Burgess
#100. In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Andrew Weil
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