Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.” — Yeo-tze Copy Share Image
“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.” — Tom Rachman 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
“Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing… — Sheila Ballantyne 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
“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. — David W Augsburger 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 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
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
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
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
In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she… — Edith Wharton 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
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 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
“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
“Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
