Top 274 Senseless Quotes & Sayings

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

I love adrenaline. I like senseless violence.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

An opportunity to play for your country is never senseless and especially when the games are competitive.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Thou whoreson, senseless villain!

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.