Worth less, men considered themselves worthless.

Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.

Something that everyone knows isn't worth anything.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Wealth not used is of no value at all.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.

All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

These unfortunate patients must die but rather because, in the opinion of some department, on the testimony of some commission, they have become 'worthless life' because according to this testimony they are 'unproductive national comrades.' The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.

If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.