“Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into… — J. Aleksandr Wootton 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
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo 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 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
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and… — Carl Jung 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
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
“A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium.… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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 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
“[…] 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
“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
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
“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of… — Stanisław Lem 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
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
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
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. — Nick Wechsler Copy Share Image
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
