“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. — Nick Wechsler 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
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tis but a day we sojourn here below, And all the gain we get is grief and woe, Then, leaving our life's… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a… — T. S. Eliot 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
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
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
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
Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the… — Thorstein Veblen 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
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish… — John Fowles 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 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
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very… — James Jones 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
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
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good… — Twyla Tharp 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
“knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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 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
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
“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
