Pointless Pursuits Quotes

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

It is a stupidity second to none, to busy oneself with the correction of the world.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I won't ever play something just for the sake of playing it, why would I do that?

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

There are a lot of silly projects out there.