#senseless

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

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

— Jamie Kennedy

#only #section #senseless #standing #suspect

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#senseless-worry #family

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.' 'My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette. ↗

— Elizabeth Hand

#fairness #fame #music-scene #senselessness #vagaries

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. ↗

— John Blair

#acts #alone #black #block #commented

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #senselessness #time #life

We make junk, we consume junk and we are junk. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life #senselessness #life

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed