Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.” — Yeo-tze Copy Share Image
In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. — David W Augsburger Copy Share Image
“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“Uite, daca-mi strang sufletul, nu se prinde nimic in el. Oricum, am ajuns departe, foarte departe. O mai fi ceva? Arborii cresc,… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Knowledge that is not passed on reveals the futility of the one who possesses it. — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
