Meaningless

Famous quotes containing the word meaningless:

“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)

“The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living,”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

“No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)