Top Futility Quotes

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; for Time eats...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it tu...

Futility Definition

(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to...

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

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.

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 ri...

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!

She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married...

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

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.

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read and not everything thought torments me like the loss of ........

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

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

It's come at last, she thought, the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they coul...

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

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...

There is only one sure means in life, Deasey said, of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility, and disillusion. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your abil...

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper par...

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 did not do the wo...