Glen Duncan Quotes

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.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The meaning of life is life.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

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.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

The point is there ain't no point.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.