Ecclesiastes
"All is meaningless"
Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament, attributed to a figure called "the Preacher" or "the Teacher." The text meditates on life's meaning, famously declaring "vanity of vanities, all is vanity"—that human striving is ultimately futile.
Despite its bleak reputation, it counsels enjoying life's simple pleasures.
To everything there is a season comes from Ecclesiastes.
Excessive pride in oneself
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- sunEarth's primary star
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- seasonsYear's four divisions
death · pleasure · wisdom · folly · labor · gain · eternity · remembrance
Garth Ennis graphic novel
- SolomonPeaceable Hebrew name
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- TeacherHonorific for educators
Old Testament · canon · Hebrew Bible · Tanakh · Septuagint · King James · proverbs · chapters
Lack of significance
- futilityLack of purpose
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
pessimism · fatalism · skepticism · hedonism · determinism · mortality · transience · impermanence
vanity
Excessive pride in oneself
seasons · death · pleasure · wisdom · folly · labor · gain · eternity · remembrance · dust
Preacher
Garth Ennis graphic novel
Teacher · Old Testament · canon · Hebrew Bible · Tanakh · Septuagint · King James · proverbs · chapters · verses
nothing new
- meaninglessLacking significance or purpose
- silver cordSoul's link to body
meaninglessness
Lack of significance
existentialism · pessimism · fatalism · skepticism · hedonism · determinism · mortality · transience · impermanence · cyclical
- Wisdom BooksJob, Proverbs
- BibleOld Testament, New Testament, Holy Scriptures, Adam, Moses
- Bible BooksGenesis, Exodus, Proverbs, Matthew, Mark
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
- ancient textsscrolls, scroll, Euclid's Elements, Epic of Gilgamesh, codex
- Biblical WisdomJob, wisdom of Solomon, King Solomon, Solomon, wise sayings
Ecclesiastesprophecy
Foretelling of future events
Isaiah · Jeremiah · Ezekiel · Daniel · Revelation
EcclesiastesRevelation
Prophetic biblical finale
Daniel · Ezekiel · apocalypse · mystical vision · divine revelation
- ecclesiastical LatinLanguage of Christian liturgy