James Boswell Quotes

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Maybe the universe will get tired of me.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

It is nothing.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

How does one get bored of life?

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Life is a dead-end street.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.