Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. — Thomas Nagel
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. — Jose Rizal
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. — Edgar Lee Masters
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
The meaning of life is that it stops. — Franz Kafka
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. — Zane Grey
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. — Chester Himes
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future. — Epicurus
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. — George Eliot
Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance. — T. B. Joshua
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst — John Piper
Futility Of Life Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. — Kevin Gates
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. — Saint Francis de Sales
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. — Isaac Newton
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. — Socrates
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness. — Tommy Douglas
Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. — Oswald Mosley
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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
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
The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end. — James Dobson
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. — Deepak Chopra
Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life. — Robert McKee
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. — Naguib Mahfouz
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
Futility Quotes
The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile. — Marcelo H. del Pilar
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. — Jose Marti
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. — Carl Jung
Life Has No Meaning Quotes
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man — Ernest Shackleton
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. — Joseph Campbell
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. — Rick Warren
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. — E. M. Cioran
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. — Lafcadio Hearn
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? — Charles M. Schulz
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it? — Naguib Mahfouz
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. — Niels Bohr
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry. — John Taylor Gatto
Absurdity is what I like most in life. — David Lynch
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. — Vaclav Havel
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. — Metrodorus of Chios
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity. — Jules Henry
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers. — Matilda Joslyn Gage
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno
Meaningless Life Quotes
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. — Corazon Aquino
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. — Marion Woodman
It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours. — Tim Minchin
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato
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. — Charles Bukowski
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. — Stanley Kubrick
Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. — Alex Garland
It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. — Danielle LaPorte
God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities. — T. B. Joshua
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. — George Lois
Meaning Of Life Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect. — ASAP Rocky
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. — Joseph Campbell
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. — Saint Joseph
Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman
Life unexamined, is not worth living. — Democritus
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk
Life without freedom is not worth living. — Javier Milei
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. — Monica Seles
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. — John Eldredge
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus
Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. — Will Self
The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile. — Boniface Wimmer
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. — Eckhart Tolle
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. — Brennan Manning
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. — Albert Einstein
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. — Carl Jung
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul. — Edgar Allan Poe
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him. — Anais Nin
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide. — Robert S. Mulliken
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility — Eric Hoffer
the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes. — Marjorie Holmes
The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile. — Meher Baba
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory. — Oscar Milosz
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. — Giacomo Leopardi
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion. — Thorstein Veblen
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1) — Jack London
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers. — Sylvester Stallone
Futility is the defining characteristic of life. — Stephen R. Donaldson
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love. — Emma Forrest
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated. — Eberhard Arnold
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for. — Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. — Jack London
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable. — Bertrand Russell
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it. — Maxwell Maltz
I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth. — Tim Farrington
We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative. Religion has now turned into a way to discredit people. It is futile and dishonest to argue about religion. Religion is a phenomenological umbrella; there are all kinds of religions. It makes a difference when your religion is telling you something true or something false. — Francis George
You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free. — Alice Foote MacDougall
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. — Clarence Darrow
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life. — Thomas Huxley
So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile. — Joseph Fort Newton
If you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors. — Robert Plant
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born. — Edgar Lee Masters
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. — Dawn Powell
I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done. — Wayne Dyer
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