MEANINGLESSNESS

Either our moral values tell us something about the nature and purpose of reality or they are subjective and therefore meaningless.

D.M. Baillie

Birth: the first and direst of all disasters.

Ambrose Bierce

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Drank every cup of joy, drank early, deeply drank, drank draughts which common millions might have drunk, then died of thirst because there was no more drink.

Byron

To kill God is to become god oneself: it is to realize on this earth the eternal life of which the gospel speaks.

Albert Camus

If there are no gods all our toil is without meaning.

Euripides

More people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Victor Frankl

Human thought cannot conceive any system of final truth that can give a patient what he needs in order to live.

Carl Jung

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

The universe is indifferent. Who created it? Why are we here on this puny mud-heap, spinning in infinite space? I have not the slightest idea, and I am quite convinced that no one has the least idea.

André Maurois

I have to read at least one detective book a day to drug myself against the nuclear threat.

Bertrand Russell

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

George Santayana

All existing things are born for no reason, continue through weakness and die by accident. It is meaningless that we are born; it is meaningless that we die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

… Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the

 stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,

Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare, King John

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;

They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

No mortal is happy of all on whom the sun looks down.

Theognis

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a bad joke.

Voltaire