Top 179 Futility Quotes & Sayings

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

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

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

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

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

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.

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

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

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

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

The fatal futility of Fact.

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

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

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

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

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

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

There was a certain futility to Elizabeth Colbert Busch's congressional campaign, one that had nothing to do with her and everything to do with the state and region she calls home.

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

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.