Futility Quote by Jack Kerouac

“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.”

— Jane Austen

“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the Arndt or…

— Götz Aly

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest,…

— William Allingham

Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities,…

— John Carroll

“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,…

— Jack Kerouac

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.”

— A.C. Grayling

“do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage''.”

— Maeve Binchy

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.”

— Guy Davenport

“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national…

— William Somerset Maugham

“We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe)”

— Huxley Aldous

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou…

— Robert Kennedy

“Night knew no bounds. Goethe, on a moonlit evening in Naples, was “overwhelmed by a feeling of infinite space.”

— A. Roger Ekirch

“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would like to…

— John Zelazny

“Goethe, the great nineteenth-century thinker, reportedly summed up, “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can…

— Simon Sinek