Futile Efforts Quotes
- To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg
- As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
- No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts… — Edgar Allan Poe
- I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead
- I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning… — Bill Bryson
- As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco