Futility Quote by Edith Wharton

“He shut the door and coming back into the room stood for a moment lost in thought with the tennis ball still clasped in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life…

— Glen Duncan

“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life,…

— Leonard Gardner

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and the fear that in another ten years he would…

— Roberta Pearce

“The temptation to hide in his job, to allow all his thoughts and emotions to become absorbed in the details of his career was…

— Pamela Morsi

“He felt old and miserable, going through life trying to peddle a personality of which people would not even accept a free sample.”

— Cyril Connolly

“Something was happening while you waited. The most essential thing was happening. And even if he himself was doing nothing, it was happening through…

— Patrick Süskind

“He was in control of every aspect of his profession and he deferred to no one. In his private life, however, he was clueless.”

— Robert Bryndza

“But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things…

— Bess Tefft

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand