Futility Quotes - Page 6

• We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Niños, Padre

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• Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

  John Green

  Arte, Lucha, Significado

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• In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.

  Mike Scheidt

  Giving Up, Buddhism, Self

  "Show No Mercy". Entrevista con Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. 17 th Of July de 2009.

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• When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Community, Tragedy, Beverly Hills

  "The Freedomland Interview with Kam Williams". aalbc.com.

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• The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Humor, Play

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• Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But perhaps more importantly, it removes the sense of futility that often prevents employees from speaking up.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Role Models, Empowering, Decision

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• El autor del Mahabharata no ha establecido la necesidad de la guerra física; al contrario, ha demostrado su inutilidad.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Mahabharata, Contrary

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). "El Bhagavad Gita según Gandhi", p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Order, Desire, World

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.38, Broadway Books

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• When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• El cristianismo popular tiene como emblema una horca, como sensación principal una ejecución sangrienta después de la tortura, como misterio central una venganza insensata pagada con una expiación truculenta. Pero hay un cristianismo más noble y más profundo que afirma el misterio sagrado de la igualdad y prohíbe la inutilidad y la locura de la venganza.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Execution, Sacred

  George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Writing, Men, Symphony

  Entrevista con Eric Nordern, Playboy, septiembre de 1968.

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• Muchos de nuestros compañeros liberales... me parece que se condenan a sí mismos a la inutilidad en los asuntos públicos porque no reconocen que hay una zona de afecto natural a medio camino entre la interior, o familiar, y la exterior, o de toda la humanidad. Supongo que a ellos mismos les falta de algún modo una zona y parece que se irritan... El hombre común lo sabe mejor, como lo sabría mejor si algún filósofo le dijera que no debe hacer distinciones invidiosas alimentando a sus propios hijos con preferencia a los demás. Pero, por supuesto, no puede explicarlo; simplemente... sigue alimentando a los niños.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Niños, Niños, Hombres

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• People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

  Albert Camus

  Dolor, Real, Creer

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• Pero, ¿qué ayuda prestan estas galas o pedanterías? ¿Qué ayuda del pensamiento? La vida no es dialéctica. Nosotros, creo, en estos tiempos, hemos tenido suficientes lecciones de la inutilidad de la crítica.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Criticism, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• ...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dedication, People, Majority

  Eric Hoffer (1982). "Entre el diablo y el dragón: Los mejores ensayos y aforismos de Eric Hoffer", HarperCollins Publishers

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• Más allá de la inutilidad de la fuerza armada, y en última instancia más importante, está el hecho de que la guerra en nuestro tiempo inevitablemente resulta en la matanza indiscriminada de un gran número de personas. Dicho más claramente, la guerra es terrorismo. Por eso la "guerra contra el terrorismo" es una contradicción en sí misma.

  Howard Zinn

  Guerra, Números, Gente

  Howard Zinn (2007). "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress", p.195, City Lights Books

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• I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Exercise, Long, Giving

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• Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Lying, Safety, May

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.183, Lotus Press

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• La fe, el valor, el optimismo, mirar hacia delante, nos aportan nueva vida y más vida. La futilidad, la frustración, vivir en el pasado no sólo son características de la "vejez", sino que contribuyen a ella.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Frustration, Past, Optimism

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• To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Real, Night, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.279, Open Road Media

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• You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Hate, Cutting, Pie

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• The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

  Monty Oum

  Esfuerzo

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I gave up before birth.

  Samuel Beckett

  Birth, Gave Up

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.232, Grove Press

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• The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Diagnosis, Evolution

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• Claro, nada tiene más éxito que el éxito. El hecho es, querida, que somos tontos. Nos aferramos a un ideal que nadie quiere ni le importa. Yo soy el más tonto de los dos. Sigo comiéndome el corazón y envenenando cada momento de mi vida en el intento de despertar la sensibilidad de la gente. Al menos si pudiera hacerlo con los ojos cerrados. Lo irónico es que veo la inutilidad de mis esfuerzos y, sin embargo, no puedo dejarlo.

  Emma Goldman

  Dejar Ir, Ojo, Corazón

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