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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

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place. — Deepak Chopra

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

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides — Anne Bronte

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

The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. — Steve Toltz

It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up! — Avijeet Das

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

Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins. — Beth Moore

Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug
you 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.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. — John Piper

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile. — Mary MacLane

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. — Marty Rubin

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

Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame. — Tom Rachman

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes. — Diana Gabaldon

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

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. — W.B.Yeats

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

[B]etter the beauty of struggle and futility than the illusion of accomplishment; for as we struggle, he would seem to say, so are we beautiful. — Evan Dara

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility). — George Soros

... murder wol out — Geoffrey Chaucer

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people — Ron Holland

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

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility. — Jim Butcher

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

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience. — Ian McEwan

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

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none. — Marty Rubin

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. — Franklin P. Adams

The end of the world revealed the futility of all commemorative plaques. — Tommy Wallach

Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility. — Jean-Paul Sartre

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility. — Cormac McCarthy

How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility. — Jeaniene Frost

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile — Marty Rubin

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

But the question drowns in it's futility
And even I have got to laugh at me — Emily Saliers

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp

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

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it. — Ayn Rand

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide. — Sarah McLachlan

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead. — J.K. Rowling

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

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake". — Paul David Tripp

Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win. — Marty Rubin

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

I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it. — Marilynne Robinson