“To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waited to be forgotten, had never… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic… — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell 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
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it… — Solomon Copy Share Image
“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve.… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
“The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
“I knew well the painful futility of reaching for more than you were ever likely to get, how much easier it was… — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Chipper intuited that this feeling of futility would be a fixture in his life. A dull waiting and then a broken promise,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
