Meaningless Quotes

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden

Great, Winning, Eyes

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen

Love, Good, Experience

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
William Thomas

Important, Her, Fact

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis

Money, Game, Goal

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

Good, Passion, Battle

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Mind, Heart

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley

Life, Yourself, Woman

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller

Failure, Victory, Exists

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Life, Important, Busy

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
Corazon Aquino

Life, Death, Live

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
Geezer Butler

Hope, After, Fighting

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
Robert Anton Wilson

Real, Sense, Unreal

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
Christopher Hitchens

Politics, Why, American

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
Shia LaBeouf

Life, Living, Sometimes

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Bill Murray

Nothing, Anyone, Awards

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry

Life, Love, Beauty

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz

Nature, History, True

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt

Action, Name, Attached

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
Robert Anton Wilson

Life, Work, Art

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome

Action, Name, Attached

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Famous, Fire, Become

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Hair, Means, Word

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman

Love, Hate, Yourself

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.
James Lovelock

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
Peter Hammill

Experience, Society, True

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben

Love, Sports, Care

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer

Jesus, Forgive, Died

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne

Mean, Chance, Rather

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil

Time, Death, Become

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