Futility Quotes

Futility Quote of the day

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

I gave up before birth.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

The fatal futility of Fact.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.

I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility