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
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils… — Marcelo H. del Pilar Copy Share Image
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which… — Joseph Conrad 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
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Uite, daca-mi strang sufletul, nu se prinde nimic in el. Oricum, am ajuns departe, foarte departe. O mai fi ceva? Arborii cresc,… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it… — Solomon Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally… — Emil M. Cioran 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
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
