Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.
one could drown in irrelevance.
There is no there there.
The Armistice Agreement has, in effect, become a blank piece of paper without any effect or significance.
See Charles de Gaulle {138034} on the ephemeral nature of treaties.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.