Meaningless

Famous quotes containing the word meaningless:

“The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living,”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

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