Purposeless Quotes

They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless. - Wanda Jackson

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book. - Amy Lowell

The spectacle of Mr. Allen being wheeled into the death chamber, unable to walk and unable to see those who have come to witness his execution, violates all standards of decency and would amount to nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. - Annette Carnegie

The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. - Ambrose Bierce

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. - Arthur Conan Doyle

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. - Ambrose Bierce

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day. - Peace Pilgrim