{"quotes":[{"text":"The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["doubt","god","meaninglessness","nakedness","nothingness","relation","religion","self"],"id":17887,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["cognitive-science","consciousness","consciousness","god","human-mind","meaninglessness","neuroscience","religion"],"id":32101,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.","author":"T.H. White","tags":["good-and-evil","meaninglessness","the-absurd","virtues"],"id":33659,"author_id":"T.H.+White"},{"text":"The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!","author":"Janne Teller","tags":["death-and-dying","meaninglessness"],"id":43116,"author_id":"Janne+Teller"},{"text":"Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["act","action","confidence","confident","environment","fight","legacy","life","meaning","meaninglessness","perfection","purpose","waiting"],"id":43300,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.","author":"Tao Lin","tags":["inspirational","loneliness","meaninglessness","void"],"id":56452,"author_id":"Tao+Lin"},{"text":"Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one.Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["literature","meaninglessness","plot"],"id":68968,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["awareness","careful","caution","cells","choice","choices","definition","existence","importance","important","improvement","meaning","meaninglessness","organisms","others","people","perspective","plague","purpose","responsibility","selfishness","selflessness","significance","significant","united","unity"],"id":89613,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}