Meaningless

Famous quotes containing the word meaningless:

“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)

“No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“The physical world is meaningless tonight
And there is no other.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)