Meaningless Quotes

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

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.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

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.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

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

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

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

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.