Alicia Keys

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

American Musician

Greta Thunburg

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Swedish Environmentalist

Jason Fried

Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it's one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: 'My door is always open.

American Businessman

Josh Tillman

I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

Neil Diamond

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

Evan Sayet

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

American Comedian

Joe Calzaghe

I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.

Welsh Athlete

Corazon Aquino

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Statesman

Shia LaBeouf

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

American Actor

Thomas Nagel

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Yugoslavian Philosopher

Use 'meaningless' when something does not make a difference or change anything.

Lack of Impact

Describe actions that do not convey genuine emotion or sentiment as 'meaningless'.

Emotional Emptiness

'Meaningless' may be seen as harsh or informal in serious or academic contexts.

Avoid in Formality

Point out when information is confusing or poorly conveyed by deeming it 'meaningless'.

Unclear Communication

When information doesn't relate to the topic at hand, refer to it as 'meaningless'.

Lacking Relevance

Stress that without context, statements or data can be 'meaningless'.

Contextual Dependency

Mention the word 'meaningless' to emphasize the ambiguous or enigmatic nature of something.

Ambiguity

 is meaningless if you don't know why. Because when it gets hard, when it gets tough, when your friends walk away from you, when your supporters forget you, when you don't win your first race -- if you don't know why, you can't try again. So, first know what you want.

3 questions to ask...

 even helping me to go to the bathroom. I spent most of my days sitting propped up on the couch just thinking, was I ever going to walk again? Play catch with my kids again? Wrestle with them on the living room floor? All this for a stupid, meaningless game?

Alex Smith: An NFL...

 To move relative to nothing is meaningless. The concepts of speed and of rest have only relative meaning. They are absolutely meaningless. They mean something only with respect to arbitrarily chosen, artificial frames of reference.

How fast are you moving...

 because it's scientifically meaningless. I feel it's very important to talk about a specific crop and a specific product, and think about the needs of the consumer. So part of what's happening here is that there's a mental model

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 there was nothing literally nothing and the black void of space is something so is time they asked what's before the Big Bang what's before there is time is really a meaningless question and likewise to ask where the Big Bang

Before Time and Space PIPE...

 background that we see will fly outside it here just to see the sort of containment if we were outside this it would almost be meaningless in the census before time but this is our containment of the visible universe we

A 3D atlas of the...

 upside down as you know well suddenly this job I was so eager to jump into I had worked my career for this kind of job suddenly seemed very meaningless very trivial here I go to work

The era of higher ideals...

 that explored the value of life amidst absurdity many of which circled back to the same philosophical if life is truly meaningless, is committing suicide the only rational response?

Is life meaningless? And...

 Although many people tried to comfort and encourage me, their words sounded like meaningless noise. When I was just about to give everything up after years of suffering,

The violin, and my dark...

 her love bank was so plentiful that she would touch the lives and hearts of people all over the world this small dying meaningless creature