Top 1200 Pointless Things Quotes & Sayings

I love watching 'Pointless.'

If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.

Regret is such a pointless emotion.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Losing composure is pointless.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today, we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

I remember when Twitter first came out. I was so against it, I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted to keep my life to myself. I felt like I didn't want to just put things out to the world that were pointless and meaningless.

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

Logic is pointless.

In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is to do things, even though the patient will, at that time, believe that any act is pointless and meaningless.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the music and the people out to admire the love, The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club. And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint, It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

Some critics are pointless - but many can offer me lessons.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

My debut single "Pointless Relationship" is about a girl's view of where the relationship is going with her partner and it sounds like a negative term. But the song is more of an empowering song from a woman's perspective! It's the life of them together and it's just never going to go where it should go, and so she's saying to him this is a pointless relationship.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

I'm not really big into Twitter and stuff, but I like to post really cool music videos, just sort of spread a positive light on things that interest me. As opposed to, "I hate so-and-so because they were wearing the same hat as me." That's just so pointless.

I love 'Pointless.'

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.

Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.