Pointless Quotes

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.” Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.