{"quotes":[{"text":"I lost my family,” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.","author":"Celia McMahon","tags":["family","life","losing","losing-family","lost","love","meaningless"],"id":16926,"author_id":"Celia+McMahon"},{"text":". . .Our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["confession","fleeting","futility","ignoring","impermanence","love","meaningless","uselessness","whispering","whispers","wind","words"],"id":44526,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"Life is plenty pointless. We're all put here on this earth, such a minuscule thing, really. This tiny Earth, in the midst of an ever-larger universe. We were put here for reasons unbeknownst to us, reasons that may not even exist. And, above all that, we try so hard. People work to discover things, to try to create the greatest new thing, to learn everything, to find answers. But those answers are pointless. Because one day, this world will end. And whatever mark you may have thought you left will vanish, like it was never even there. And that, my friends, is the meaning of life.","author":"Payton Webb","tags":["death","earth","life","mark","meaning-of-life","meaningless","tiny"],"id":46901,"author_id":"Payton+Webb"},{"text":"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.","author":"Robert H. Schuller","tags":["victory","meaningless","then "],"id":59688,"author_id":"Robert+H.+Schuller"},{"text":"They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn’t the one calling me home?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accolade","aware","beloved","canonise","celebrate","country","days","diamond","home","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kingdom","kojouri","love","love-poems","love","lover","meaning","meaningless","name","picture","prayer","president","princess","prize","queen","reward","sainthood","state","streets","voice","wallet","whisper","worth","worthless"],"id":69918,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?","author":"Eric Weiner","tags":["athletes","disruption","entrepreneur","meaningless","thinkers"],"id":72051,"author_id":"Eric+Weiner"},{"text":"A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless.","author":"Lik Hock Yap Ivan","tags":["inspirational","meaningless","promise","words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":88862,"author_id":"Lik+Hock+Yap+Ivan"},{"text":"I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","meaningless","meaninglessness","meaninglessness-of-life","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":90500,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.","author":"Álvaro de Campos","tags":["beauty","existence","god","it-is-what-it-is","landscape","loss","love","meaning","meaningless","nature","nothingness","paganism","pantheism","ricardo-reis","truth","understanding","wine"],"id":95813,"author_id":"%C3%81lvaro+de+Campos"},{"text":"At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. Your handshakes with strangers are firm and your gaze never wavers; you think of steel and diamonds when you stare. In monotone you repeat the legendary words of long-dead lovers to those you claim to love; you take them into bed with you, and you mimic the rhythmic motions you've read of in manuals. When protocol demands it you dutifully drop to your knees and pray to a god who no longer exists. But in this hour you must admit to yourself that this is not enough, that you are not good enough. And when you knock your fist against your chest you hear a hollow ringing echo, and all your thoughts are accompanied by the ticks of clockwork spinning behind your eyes, and everything you eat and drink has the aftertaste of rust.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["depression","dexter-palmer","dissatisfied","faking-it","godless","going-through-the-motions","meaningless","modern-society","not-good-enough","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":113936,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}