For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted. — W. H. Auden 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
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost… — Laure Lacornette Copy Share Image
“Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination;… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from… — Ron Holland Copy Share Image
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The first was to expect crushing disappointment in life, the second was the absolute reliability of loss, and finally, the utter futility… — Domingo Martinez Copy Share Image
“those whom love has held, has held here in time curious, in this labyrinth of roses—it will go on holding, though in… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum Copy Share Image
God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. — John Piper Copy Share Image
