Characteristics Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson Download Open image “Futility is the defining characteristic of life.” — Stephen R. Donaldson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characteristics Defining Futility Life
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric… — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
“Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.” — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The basic creative energy of life - life force - bubbles up and courses through all of existence” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended.” — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.” — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits… — Poemen Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
