Pointless Quotes
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![Franz Kafka](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615573688i/5223._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
![Molly McAdams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648176836i/6436698._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart”
― Stealing Harper
― Stealing Harper
“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.”
― Numbers
― Numbers
![Jeff Lindsay](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1511733399i/10482._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”
― Dearly Devoted Dexter
― Dearly Devoted Dexter
![Sarah Kane](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267184057i/29185._UX200_CR0,69,200,200_.jpg)
“And when I don’t feel it, it’s pointless.
Think about getting up it’s pointless.
Think about eating it’s pointless.
Think about dressing it’s pointless.
Think about speaking it’s pointless.
Think about dying only it’s totally
fucking pointless.”
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Think about getting up it’s pointless.
Think about eating it’s pointless.
Think about dressing it’s pointless.
Think about speaking it’s pointless.
Think about dying only it’s totally
fucking pointless.”
―
![Vera Nazarian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561930653i/186145._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.”
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![Gerhard Richter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1549557595i/45037._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.”
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![Abhaidev](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1621070216i/14177542._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know why the world is moving? Or why things are the way they are? It’s because the vast majority of people don’t ask themselves one simple question. ‘And then what?’ I want to crack this exam. ‘And then what?’ I want to elope with her. ‘And then what?’ I want that luxury car. ‘And then what?’ I want to be famous. ‘And then what?’ Do you understand what I want to expound? We all progress, taking one step at a time. We all progress with one goal under consideration. But no matter how many steps we take, there still remains a deep yearning for something that we can’t explain. A nihilist knows that it is a vicious circle. A nihilist knows that it is all ‘pointless.’ (Yes, true nihilism is spirituality inverted). But thank God, nihilists don’t rule this world. And thank God, nor do the spiritualists. Else the whole world would be asking, ‘And then what?”
― The World's Most Frustrated Man
― The World's Most Frustrated Man
“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.”
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![Michael Ben Zehabe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633557532i/5184432._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“So pointless to play over how our years might have been put to better use. They can't be recovered now. We do well not to grieve on and on. Ancient voices may have much to tell, but no one's listening.”
― Persianality
― Persianality
![Rachel Hartman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1307116804i/357601._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“We won’t know what hit us, because we’ll be dead; or we will know, and we’ll die in protracted agony. There’s no point worrying about it beforehand.”
― Tess of the Road
― Tess of the Road
![Sandra Newman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1281157128i/64288._UY200_CR60,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless.”
― The Heavens
― The Heavens
![Zøe Haslie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1618065727i/17628082._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's hard, and it's painful, and it's tiresome, and it's lonely, and if on top of i, you really don't think you're gonna make it, it's just cruel and pointless.”
― Just For A While
― Just For A While
![Awdhesh Singh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1409070576i/7333031._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We must understand that each one of us is unique in this universe. Hence, it is pointless to compare ourselves with any other person. Just like a cow is not inferior to a dog, since both of them are perfect in themselves, we too are perfect in the way we are. We can make ourselves better and reach higher levels of perfection, but we can’t become like anyone else.”
― 31 Ways to Happiness
― 31 Ways to Happiness
![Aspen Matis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437049614i/7307462._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“But in creative fields, a degree is a prerequisite for nothing.”
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
![Iris Murdoch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238673382i/7287._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?”
― The Message to the Planet
― The Message to the Planet
![Dorothea Lasky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185882248i/683293._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Because poetry reminds you
That there is no dignity
In living
You just muddle through and for what”
― Rome: Poems
That there is no dignity
In living
You just muddle through and for what”
― Rome: Poems
![Knut Hamsun](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651531135i/18317._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Thus, he walks and walks in his wilderness, a futile, foolish trek made not in order to arrive somewhere but simply and solely in order to be one of those who walk in the wilderness. And this work of his is a life sentence.”
― The Women at the Pump
― The Women at the Pump
![Emil M. Cioran](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651442866i/68189._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep...”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
![Jason Pargin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629976025i/16596547._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“torture is useful for when you don't particularly care about the quality of information you're getting, but that's about it”
― Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
― Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
![Emma Richler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1609510207i/423238._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's name on it, he lurches upright, to the waist, a roaring sound in his ears.”
― Be My Wolff
― Be My Wolff
![David Graeber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1479657149i/29101._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Dostoyevsky developed the theory that the worst torture one could possibly devise would be to force someone to endlessly perform an obviously pointless task.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
![Maisey Yates](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1451265471i/3430431._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“I want you there. Ellie's House is really important to me. It's the only thing that makes me feel like what I went through-what we went through wasn't completely pointless and cruel. I want this to be important to you. I want you to be there. To lend your connections. Your appearance matters.”
― The Rancher's Baby
― The Rancher's Baby
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