It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic 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
How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence… — Ben Fountain 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
“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
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
“The first was to expect crushing disappointment in life, the second was the absolute reliability of loss, and finally, the utter futility… — Domingo Martinez Copy Share Image
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura 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
You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut… — Alice Foote MacDougall 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
“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
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
“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
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault 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
