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Futility  Quotes
You can’t argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

—Richelle E.

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Talking about one’s feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and...

—Derek Landy

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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

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

—Marty Rubin

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

—T.S. Eliot

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Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

—Denis Healey

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Patronage of NegationI am constantly confronted by other people’s worksThat I could have created myself.And I am constantly disappointed by them.Sadly, I have to recognize themFor what they are: inferior versionsOf what I could have...

—John Tottenham

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Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

—Girdhar Joshi

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…futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause …

—John Geddes

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The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

—Marty Rubin

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A Cathedral Façade at MidnightAlong the sculptures of the western wallI watched the moonlight creeping:It moved as if it hardly moved at allInch by inch thinly peepingRound on the pious figures of freestone, broughtAnd poised...

—Thomas Hardy

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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though...

—H. Rider

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My Sadness is Deeper than YoursMy sadness is deeper than yours. My interior life is richer than yours. I am more interesting than you. I don’t care about anybody else’s problems. They are not as...

—John Tottenham

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What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn’t it occur to you that the sort of...

—François Mauriac

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Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on...

—Joseph Conrad

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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

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Life … is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

—William Shakespeare

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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several;...

—H. Rider

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Don’t be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life…fear beauty!

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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After we’re feasted down to white sticks and it’s all covered in lions and trees and whatever the monkeys become prod the ground with a toe, staring down with glittering eyes at the guts of...

—Eric Sennevoight

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

—Sarah McLachlan

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That’s like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.

—Kelli Jae

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Each of us is aware he’s a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our emotions combined cannot counteract those laws. It can only hate them....

—Stanisław Lem

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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at...

—Enrico Fermi

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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...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

—Henry David Thoreau

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What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

—Michel Faber

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He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

—Nick Harkaway

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Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

—Vera Nazarian

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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save...

—Khalil Gibran

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Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city men build has...

—J. Aleksandr Wootton

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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility,...

—Bruce Sterling

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. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

—John Daniel Thieme

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The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.Or, at least not...

—Vera Nazarian

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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

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…we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not...

—Erich Maria

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into...

—Patrick White

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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can...

—John Daniel Thieme

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For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul...

—W. Scott

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Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished...

—Iain Pears

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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.

—Haruki Murakami

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Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of...

—Theodor W.

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Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women...

—Bell Hooks

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To forget would mean the things we never knewhad never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

—John Daniel Thieme

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But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things are organized and how certain mutations, transformations, gestations take place, even if I...

—Eugène Ionesco

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Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory, and the forgotten smell of that narrow plastic...

—John Updike

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