143 Quotes About Futility

Wake up and be happy. Everything else is drudgery, futility, waste.

Do what you love and be happy. Everything else is drudgery, futility, waste.

those whom love has held, has held here in timecurious, in this labyrinth of roses—it will go on holding, though in cruelty—of stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.

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 or succeeded in remaining engaged.

After digging a thousand wells of my own and stumbling upon a thousand others dug by the hands of thirsty men, I have yet to realize that the only well that can satiate every thirst is the one that men will never dig.

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

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 people's vanity and foolishness.

. . . 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 reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .

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