Futility Quotes

129 quotes by 112 authors

As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better.… — Shakti Gawain
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was… — Albert Einstein
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly… — Albert Einstein
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. — David W Augsburger
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many… — Carl Jung
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. — Robert Crumb
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue… — Albert Einstein
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring… — William O. Douglas
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles… — Ayn Rand
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet… — Jean Baudrillard
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will… — Monty Oum
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end… — Eckhart Tolle
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly… — Eric Hoffer
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the… — Eberhard Arnold
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball… — Danny Elfman
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

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