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  • I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

    Men   Thinking   Forever  
  • Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

    Life   Stars   Novelists  
    Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK
  • When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

    Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012
  • So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

    "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.
  • God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

  • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

    Tim Minchin 's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.
  • I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

    Life   Death   Wise  
  • I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

    Believe   Long   Matter  
  • Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

    Jobs   People   Good Job  
  • Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

    "The Mixed-Up Life of Shia LaBeouf" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. June 14, 2009.
  • We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

    Order   Issues   Finals  
    "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.
  • The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

    Future   Past   Men  
    "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.
  • Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  • Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  • Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

    "Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.
  • To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

    "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)
  • We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

    Love   Death   Novelists  
    Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins
  • Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

    Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press
  • Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

  • The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

    Life   Death   Men  
    Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media
  • Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

    Life   Sleep   Novelists  
    Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”
  • To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

    Mean   Eight   Government  
  • A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

    Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey
  • The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

    Anger   Future   Past  
    The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9
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