Meaninglessness Quotes

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

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

— 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.

Gladiator (2000)

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

— 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.

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.

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