Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

The answer is there is no answer.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.