Quotes About Futility

He considers it his duty to help these founders understand the futility of persevering, so these brilliant people can move on to more worthwhile opportunities. The first obstacle Conway faces is the most obvious one: getting founders to actually recognize that the venture is failing and that it's time for them to walk away. Conway is battling the host of cognitive and motivational forces that make it hard for these entrepreneurs to do that.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

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...

going to work so as to forget that there was nothing worth working for

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remarks the futility of themselves.

But all I know – the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself – these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

the sense of futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle.

I don't believe there's any one alive who can contemplate themselves as an impermanent institution, as a luxury or an unnecessary evil. 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….

Tok? gilinim?si ? save be jokios paguodos, nepatenkint? saviraiškos troškim? ir jausm?, kad laikas nepaliaujamai, tuš?iai lekia pro šal?, palengvina tik ?sitikinimas, kad n?ra ko prarasti, nes visos pastangos ir laim?jimai taip pat bever?iai.

Dios me creó para que yo lo imitara de noche. Él es el Sol, yo soy la Luna. Mi luz flota sobre todo lo que es fútil o ha terminado, fuego fatuo, márgenes de río, pantanos y sombras.

Por qué es bello el arte? Porque es inútil ¿Por qué es tan fea la vida? Porque en ella todo son fines y propósitos. Todos sus caminos conducen de un punto hasta otro punto. ¡ojalá hubiera un camino hecho en un lugar donde nadie parta hacia otro lugar al que nadie va! Quién

His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.

El cansancio de todas las ilusiones y de todo cuanto hay en las ilusiones: su pérdida, la inutilidad de tenerlas, el cansancio anticipado de tener que tenerlas para perderlas, la amargura de haberlas tenido, la vergüenza intelectual de haberlas tenido sabiendo que tendrían ese final.

One man reads in order to know, all in vain. Another enjoys himself in order to live, again all in vain.

Seeing the immanent futility of all forms of action was, from childhood on, one of my favorite means of detaching myself even from myself.

Everything seems doomed in advance to insignificance.

El tiempo pasa, nada nos dice. Envejecemos. Sepamos, con malicia casi, sentirnos ir. De nada vale hacer un gesto. No se resiste al dios atroz dios que sus hijos siempre devora.

Whirls and whirlpools in the fluid futility of life!

Let us render everything absurd and adorn our sterile hours with more futilities.

I've done nothing nor will I ever do anything useful to justify my existence.

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

another day, life and its fictitious usefulness and vain activity;

Uno lee para saber, inútilmente. Otro se divierte para vivir, inútilmente.