Pointlessness Quotes

• When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Young, Shows

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

  Robert Smith

  Slides, Easy, Existence

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• It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

  Franz Kafka

  Made, Wanted, Has Beens

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.107, Franz Kafka

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• ¿Qué es la meditación? Es huir del yo, es un breve escape de la agonía de ser un yo, es un breve adormecimiento de los sentidos contra el dolor y el sinsentido de la vida. La misma evasión, el mismo breve adormecimiento es lo que el conductor de una carreta de bueyes encuentra en la posada, bebiendo unos tazones de vino de arroz o de leche de coco fermentada.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dolor, Beber, Vino

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). "Los 10 libros más grandes de todos los tiempos", p.1457, Google Publishing.

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• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  Terry Eagleton

  Arte, Ideas, Looks

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• I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Stupid, Perfect, Long

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.4, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Careers, Culture, Citizens

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• One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Satire, One Man

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• The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

  Henry Rollins

  Perfect, Tasks, Beats

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• I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

  Rupert Amigo

  Acceptance, Frustration, Tea

  "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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• La aparente falta de sentido de la moda puede ser precisamente lo que la hace tan fuerte como sensor del zeitgeist. Ni siquiera yo, que soy diseñador, sé por qué una determinada proporción me parece anticuada o por qué otra me parece excitante en un momento dado. Eso se lo dejo a los historiadores y teóricos de la cultura.

  Jil Sander

  Moda, Fuerte, Mayo

  Jil Sander: "Si tuviera el poder, prohibiría los leggings". Entrevista con Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. 6 de septiembre de 2011.

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• This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

  Noah Cicero

  Views, Class, White

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• Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

  Florence King

  Exercise, Golf, People

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• If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

  Philip K. Dick

  Known, Ifs

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• I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
  I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

  Ani DiFranco

  Alma, Mente, Propósito

  Song: Asking Too Much, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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