So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It's important to note that there's no such thing as perfect happiness, just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. This… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks… — Malcolm Forbes 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
“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
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
In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I… — Theodor Herzl 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 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
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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
“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
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“. . . This is not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roads familiar in the… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
“I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility… — Regina Sirois Copy Share Image
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
