Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.