“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

“Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.”

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”

“I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

“"What war is this?"
"A pointless one."
"They are all pointless Denier. Subjugation and defeat breed resentment and hatred, and such things cannot be bribed away."
"Unless the spirit of the defeated is crushed," Trull said.”

“Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”