143 Quotes About Futility

I was a philosopher when still in swaddling clothes. I was against life, on principle. What principle? The principle of futility.

Folly consists in chasing after the unattainable.

He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. ‘Gentlemen,’ said he, ‘here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.

FutilityMove him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields half-sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds— Woke once the clays of a cold star.Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? —O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Mourning failures every morning instead of gunning for progress is a yawning futility. Don’t blame it on waking up on the wrong side of the bed, blame on not answering a wakeup call.

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 ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.

A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium. By the time he is disenchanted with all parties, he is an old man on the verge of death; his sons retain the belief of his youth, and the see-saw goes on

Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.

Mig angrer av mit hjertens grundjeg bogen skulde læreat jeg for alt det jeg har slittfik intet andet til profitend umag og besvære. Hvad har vi nu, fordi vi gikvel 20 aars tid i skole,Og mangt et slag i Haanden fik, samt banket rygg og kjole?