“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
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...” — John Geddes 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
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There was a certain futility to Elizabeth Colbert Busch's congressional campaign, one that had nothing to do with her and everything to… — Steve Kornacki 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
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. — Nick Wechsler 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
“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
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are… — Monty Oum Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?' The Imass shrugged before replying. 'I think of futility, Adjunct.' 'Do all Imass think about… — Steven Erikson 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
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
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in… — Anonymous 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
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.” — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
