Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.
How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
The fatal futility of Fact.
In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
If. A two-letter word for futility.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earth’s sloping atmosphere?
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
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 majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization. . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
