Meaninglessness Quotes

When indeed does the temporal suffering oppress a man most terribly? Is it not when it seems to him ...

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo...

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibili...

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme aga...

But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical re...

If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there...

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrus...

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be pr...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno...