Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But perhaps… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
“Patronage of Negation I am constantly confronted by other people’s works That I could have created myself. And I am constantly disappointed… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.… — Bill Mollison 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
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality… To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex.… — Tim Farrington Copy Share Image
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“you were the only one who understood the futility of the arrangement of life; all the others were only displeased with trivial… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned,… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
“I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility… — Regina Sirois Copy Share Image
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith;… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
“My Sadness is Deeper than Yours My sadness is deeper than yours. My interior life is richer than yours. I am more… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
![“[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread.” quote by Anita Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a9e/anita-brookner-8550_abyss_as-if-the-next-thing-must-quickly-come-a_1406408.jpg)
