Meaninglessness Quotes

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?

"And what good does it do you to own the stars?"
"It does me the good of making me rich."
"And what good does it do you to be rich?"
"It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered."
"This man," the little prince said to himself, "reasons a little like my poor tippler...".

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince

If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to swoop down like he does to Jimmy Stewart... in It's a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free... and change my life forever. But he won't come. It doesn't happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy... the fights, anger, guilt, Rafe, suicidal thoughts. All of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up... gradually, and then suddenly.

Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

Charles Martin

The Mountain Between Us

— My father's war against the barbarians. He said it himself, it achieved nothing. But the people loved him.
— The people always love victories.
— Why? They didn't see the battles. What do they care about Germania?
— They care about the greatness of Rome.

— I didn't expect you to understand.
— Why not? Because I wasn’t there? Because I don’t know what it's like?
— You don't.
— You don't have to be in a war to see people get killed for no reason.

I could scream out loud,
But I'm wasting my time.

No matter how hard it is, death is the final goodbye. As life stops, all the regrets and struggles are to no avail.

Throw the first key into the sea of hate,
Throw the second key into the sea of fear,
Throw the third key into the sea of senselessness
And make the people hold each other's hands.
The fourth key belongs into the sea of greed,
And the fifth into the sea of ignorance,
Disease, disease, disease my friend,
For this whole world's in devil's hand.
Disease, disease, disease my friend,
Throw the key or you may die.

Helloween

Keeper Of the Seven Keys

Thinking it’s your fault after the fact is just pointless. Everyone has their own limitations.

Boku dake ga Inai Machi

I’m wasting my days as I’ve wasted my nights
And I’ve wasted my youth.

Nonsensical questions usually imply sarcasm, which I've found people often answer sarcastically.

I treated him. He was a complicated patient. He saw reality too clearly. Faulty denial mechanism, failed to block out the horrible truths of existence. In the end, his inability to push away the awful facts of "being-in-the-world" rendered his life meaningless, or as one great Hollywood producer said: "Too much reality is not what the people want". Sandy Bates suffered a depression common to many artists in middle age. In my latest paper for the Psychoanalytic Journal, I have named it, "Ozymandias Melancholia".

Stardust Memories

Sandy's Analyst

artist

Ozymandias Melancholia

Whatever you do in life will be insignificant
But it's very important that you do it, cause
Nobody else will.

L'absurdité grandit comme une fleur fatale
Dans le terreau des sens, des coeurs et des cerveaux;
En vain tonnent, là-bas, les prodiges nouveaux;
Nous, nous restons croupir dans la raison natale.

You’re waiting for something
You’ve waited in vain because there’s nothing for you.

Crystal Castles

Suffocation

waiting