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  • I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

    Life   Success   Coffee  
    "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 51 (1917)
  • 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.

    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

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

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

  • 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)

  • When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  • 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.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.287, VM eBooks
  • Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

    Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.16, Vintage
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.
  • A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. 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.

    Dog   Laughter   Sadness  
    Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions
  • Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

    Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.20, Del Rey
  • It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

    Life   Death   Play  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • 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.

  • To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

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

    "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".
  • Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
  • 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.

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