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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
— Walter Kirn
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
— Albert Schweitzer
History is the nothing people write about a nothing.
— William Golding
It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.
— Helen Phillips
the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where
— Irvin D. Yalom
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
— Paul Tillich
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.
— Doris Janzen Longacre
...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.
— Ravi Zacharias
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
— Kahlil Gibran
Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Without Christ, I would be what the world desires and praises. Then I would shudder and fade into eternal meaninglessness. No thank you.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
— Robin McKinley
Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.
— Srividya Srinivasan
Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
— Edward T. Welch
Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.
— Bryant McGill
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
— Paul Tillich
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth - a nightmare of meaninglessness without end.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.
— Oli Anderson
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
— G.K. Chesterton
Life is so meaningless without trouble.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
— Stanley Kubrick
But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?
— Philip Yancey
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
— Aldous Huxley
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
— Hayden Carruth