Meaningless Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old meaningless quotes, meaningless sayings, and meaningless proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. Thomas Nagel
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Robert H. Schuller
One explains things until things have no meaning anymore. Marty Rubin
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. Tom Head
Future is a meaningless word if you don't give your heart and soul to your dreams. What happens to us is never etched in stone, but determined by what we want to happen… Death is inevitable, but life is what we can avoid, if we so choose. Katlyn Charlesworth
Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth. Robert Holden
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. Martin Esslin
The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. Glen Duncan
Talk, without the support of action means nothing. DaShanne Stokes
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. Tolstoy
Practice without improvement is meaningless. Chuck Knox
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. Roy H. Williams
Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful. Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is meaningless, until you realize it is you who gives it meaning. Val Galvan
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. Albert Camus
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. Doris Janzen Longacre
Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. Halle Berry
Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness. Jason A. Heisey
History is the nothing people write about a nothing. William Golding
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. Hannah Arendt
All existing things are born for no reason, continue through weakness and die by accident. Jean Paul Sartre
We have no predestined fate, and each of us must decide how to live as fully, happily, and meaningfully as possible. Irving Yalom
The idea that life is meaningless often lies at the heart of depression. Sarah Tomley
If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningless ends of life would vanish to an increasing degree with each step in our development. But that is— or seems to me— not the case. Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is- or has-meaning and meaninglessness. Carl Jung
We don't see that it's through with our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness. Steve Hagen
Regardless of the relative picture which is chaotic and most of the time apparently quite meaningless, we have a place in us, in our being, where we affirm infinite meaningfulness... comes to us in various ways and unexpectedly speaks to us or turns us around right in the middle of what appears meaningless. Lex Hixon
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live— moreover, the only one. E.M. Cioran
There exists no 'meaning' no grand design in the universe, no guidelines for living other than those the individual creates. Irving Yalom
Better than if there were thousands of meaningless words is one meaningful word that on hearing brings peace Dhammapada
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. dark would be without meaning. C.S. Lewis