Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum 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
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
In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure… — Jean Baudrillard 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
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
“Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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
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
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
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's… — Danny Elfman 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
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
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
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke… — Wilfred Owen 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
“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
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image