Futility Quotes
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Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
— Karl Lagerfeld
But then he'd lived long enough to understand the futility of expecting anything at all
— Laura Barnett
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
— Jean Helion
If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come.
— James Clavell
Futility is in the eye of the beholder.
— Dean Koontz
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
Speed is no advantage round a vicious circle.
— Marty Rubin
I resolved to break the barren soil of my fruitless brain.
— Elizabeth Grymeston
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
— Joseph Conrad
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
— H.P. Lovecraft
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
— Russell Brand
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
— Michel Faber
I gave up before birth.
— Samuel Beckett
( ... ) a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrugyou shrug away the warm kiss — Jack Kerouac
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
— Maya Angelou
And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
What is technology in the end but man's futile effort to create the world in his own image?
— Marty Rubin
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
— Confucius
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
— Erma Bombeck
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.
— Isaac Asimov
He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.
— Philip Roth
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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— Geoffrey Chaucer
Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.
— Anthony Carmona
Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.
— Raymond E. Feist
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
— Jon Krakauer
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prayers without action is activity in futility.
— Sunday Adelaja
Why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?
— Arthur Findlay
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
— Errol Morris
I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !
— Laure Lacornette
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.
— Larry Dossey
I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.
— Michael Chabon
The futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it
— Jane Austen
The fatal futility of Fact.
— Henry James
That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
— Franklin P. Adams
Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility.
— Cormac McCarthy
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
— Michel Foucault
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
— H.G.Wells
The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.
— Winston Graham
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.
— Paul Russell
One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.
— Steven Pinker
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
— Cullen Hightower
I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.
— Sarah McLachlan
ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".
— Paul David Tripp
But then he'd lived long enough to expect the futility of ever expecting anything at all
— Laura Barnett
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
— Janette Turner Hospital
They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.
— Denis Healey
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.
— Isaac Asimov
...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.
— Raymond E. Feist
With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
— Stieg Larsson
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
But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
— Michael Chabon
