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Life is like an idiotic dream, full of noise and agitation, but meaningless.
From Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Act V, Scene V, the original words are:

Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and anger, but meaningless.

Life is like an idiotic dream, full of noise and commotion, but meaningless.

Post-Faulkner wrote the novel The Sound and the Fury on this theme.