I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that all the hundred thousand pieces of life's game were in my pocket. A glimpse of its meaning had stirred my reason and I was determined to begin the game afresh. I would sample its tortures once more and shudder again at its senselessness. I would traverse not once more, but often, the hell of my inner being.
Quotes about senselessness (9 Quotes)
Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.
The hardest part is, it didn't have to be this way. If people had evacuated -- of course, where are they going to evacuate to But other people did evacuate. Everybody that died here was needless. It's just the senselessness of it all.
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Medical parole has traditionally been used only sparingly across the country, despite the savings it could provide for prisons and despite the senselessness of keeping terminally ill men and women behind razor wire.
The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend,
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.