Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tis but a day we sojourn here below, And all the gain we get is grief and woe, Then, leaving our life's… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils… — Marcelo H. del Pilar Copy Share Image
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
