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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, -- Questlove
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. -- Stanley Kubrick
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. -- Martin Esslin
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. -- Rajneesh
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. -- Aldous Huxley
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -- Albert Schweitzer
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. -- John Cage
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. -- Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. -- William Saroyan
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. -- Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness? -- Scarlett Thomas
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love. -- Marianne Williamson
The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear. -- Odd Nerdrum
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe and that it teaches the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind; words, images and ideas. -- Paul Baran
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. -- Aldous Huxley
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. -- Errol Morris
They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean. -- Rollo May
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness. -- Jason A. Heisey
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. -- Walter Kirn
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. -- Paul Tillich
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
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. -- John Green
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness. -- Janet Fitch
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
What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment -- Michael K. Hooker
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness. -- Paul Tillich
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. -- Hermann Hesse
As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness. -- Meghan Daum
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity. -- Pascal Mercier
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness. -- Simon Critchley
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence. -- Robert Reich
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them. -- John Silber

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