Futility Of Life Quotes

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.