senselessness QUOTES

1 " That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles. "

2 " I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall repeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it. "

― , Rage and Reason

3 " Thousands, if not millions, of people had exchanged life for the negation of life simply so that someone like me could have the pleasure of riding in a taxi. And now thousands more were throwing away their lives in order to try and eliminate global suffering, and they didn't see the senselessness of that, though it screamed out from every page of history and from every street-corner; in the scream you could hear the universal lack of order and lack of satisfaction and all the other shortcomings which were in fact the very essence of life - remove them, do away with them, and what would be left? "

― Leonid Borodin ,

4 " It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me. "

― Iris Murdoch

5 " Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: " waiting" and " hoping" . If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time " wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be " killed" . In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of " time" . (" Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " ) "

6 " The completely profound senselessness of my own existence explodes into it's own blissful freedom. There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without future there can be no loss. "

― Carol Cassella , Oxygen

7 " His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. "

― Gerhard Roth , The Will To Sickness

8 " What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering... "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

9 " Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances. "

― Shannon L. Alder

10 " You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. "

― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged

11 " About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times. "

― C.G. Jung

12 " To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself. "

― Sten Nadolny , Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit