T. J. Miller Quotes

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.

Nothing is important.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

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.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

Without faith, life is futile.

If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

At the end of the day, it's all about the story.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.