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  • Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

  • 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  
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Wisdom   Loss  
  • The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

    Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.183, University of Chicago Press
  • Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House
  • 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. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.

  • Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  • 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.
  • Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

    Pain   Doe   Pleasure  
  • 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.

    Men   Bears   Philosopher  
    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press
  • Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

    Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee
  • The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

    Lying   Reality   Men  
  • 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.

    War   Frustration   Men  
  • You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

    Nice   Clothes   Joy  
  • We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

    Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee
  • 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.

  • 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
  • We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

    Knowing   Giving   Mind  
    Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books
  • It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  • Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

    "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.
  • 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 (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books
  • I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

    Life   Death   Wise  
  • That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

  • We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

  • 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.

    Running   Lying   Style  
  • Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

    Interview With Werner Herzog, www.believermag.com. March/April 2008.
  • Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

    Heart   Dust   Sorrow  
  • The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

    Men   Creative   Force  
    Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).
  • The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

    Inspiring   Future   Men  
    "The decay and the restoration of civilization".
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