Meaninglessness of Existence Quotes

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Estragon: Nothing to be done.

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.