Quotes about Meaningless

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

When the Spirit of God is grieved away, every appeal made through the Lord's servants is meaningless to them.

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.