Futility Quotes

129 quotes by 112 authors

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When… — Thorstein Veblen
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is… — Anais Nin
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of… — David First
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. — Cullen Hightower
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when… — Sylvester Stallone
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H.G. Wells
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath… — Kurt Vonnegut
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child… — Kurt Vonnegut
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The complicated futility of ignorance. — Kurt Vonnegut
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance… — Plutarch
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom.… — Bruce Sterling

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