The act of bell
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Ezra Pound
Pointless
Bumblestripe: “I think we
Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.” Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle? Erin Hunter
The shortness of life,
The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I’m already gone. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Existential depression has always
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world’s most pointless forms of suffering. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Hating politics was like
Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable. Eileen Wilks
Instead of creating expectations
Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a ‘yes’ to the isness, because it’s pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or ‘don’t want’ what is. Eckhart Tolle
Worry means the mind
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. Eckhart Tolle
Editors can be stupid
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can … Read more
By interpreting freedom as
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It\’s very easy in
It’s very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, \”Well, the hell with it, as far as I’m concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang\” – I’ve never reached that … Read more