Futility Quotes

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and also that there will always be someone better than you.

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

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I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and the strong. We are all here for a mere moment.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

Prayers without action is activity in futility.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.