Futile Quotes

257 Futile quotes by 213 unique authors

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and… — John Cage
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide… — Woody Allen
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a… — Virginia Woolf
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We… — Woodrow Wilson
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge… — Joseph Conrad
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure… — Nick Bantock
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to… — Scott Adams
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility… — Roland Barthes
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind… — Milan Kundera
Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You… — Milan Kundera
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none… — Theodore Dreiser
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window. — Albert Einstein
Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?' The Imass shrugged before replying. 'I think of futility, Adjunct.' 'Do all Imass think about futility?' 'No. Few… — Steven Erikson
Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts… — Thomas S. Monson
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could… — Eckhart Tolle
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and… — Brennan Manning
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,… — Jorge Luis Borges
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port… — Emily Dickinson

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