“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming… — John Williams Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image