#meaningless

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#meaningless #void #experience

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#awakens #best #better #conquest #contribution

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at. ↗

— Tao Lin

#loneliness #meaninglessness #void #experience

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#believe #bit #crap #doing #every

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing

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

— Shia LaBeouf

#frightened #get #i #i feel #life

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#lives #meaningless #our #our lives #really

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #being #bizarre #brain #days

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ↗

— William Gibson

#any #bits #fragments #impossible #information

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

#condescending #each #end #first #first thing