Meaning Nothing Quotes

• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

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  Gustav Stresemann

  War   Loss   Territory  

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• The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Elude Us   Trying   Meaning Nothing  

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• Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'

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  John Updike

  Beautiful   Moving   Math  

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• It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

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  Charles Bukowski

  Book   Mean   Self  

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• Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

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  Jimi Hendrix

  Music   Spiritual   Art  

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 09, 1969.

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• Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.

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  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying   Men   Giving  

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

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  Ken Kesey

  Hands   Numbers   Alarms  

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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