Futility Quotes - Page 7

• Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

  David Primero

  Humorous, Ideas, Laughing

  "Lo único tarde es nunca". Entrevista con Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. 12 de noviembre de 2010.

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Trends, Systematic, Waste

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

  Jane Jacobs

  Disappointment, Cities, Causes

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage

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• Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Futility Of Life, Defining, Characteristics

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.20, Del Rey

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• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Educational, Ignorance, Race

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1947). “Annual”

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• La mente vive a través del más, y el más no puede cumplirse; eso es imposible. ACABA EN LÁGRIMAS. Todo deseo acaba en frustración, porque toda expectativa es el principio de la frustración. ¿Por qué todo deseo acaba en frustración? Sólo hay dos alternativas: o logras tu objeto de deseo o no lo logras, pero en ambos casos acabará en lágrimas. Si lo consigues, verás la inutilidad de todo ello.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Two, Expectations

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• What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.

  Sydney Lee

  Hope, Expectations, Moments

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• I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.

  Helen Prejean

  Years, People, Our Society

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.106, Vintage

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

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Crush, Futility Of Life, Life And Death

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• Los psiquiatras declaran que la mayor parte de nuestra fatiga deriva de nuestras actitudes mentales y emocionales... ¿Qué tipo de factores emocionales cansan al trabajador sedentario (o sentado)? ¿La alegría? ¿La satisfacción? No. Nunca. El aburrimiento, el resentimiento, la sensación de no ser apreciado, la sensación de inutilidad, la prisa, la ansiedad, la preocupación, son los factores emocionales que agotan al trabajador sentado, lo hacen susceptible a los resfriados, reducen su rendimiento y lo envían a casa con un dolor de cabeza nervioso. Sí, nos cansamos porque nuestras emociones producen tensiones nerviosas en el cuerpo.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See the futility, see the whole absurdity of it - it is not leading you anywhere. Become a little more refined, become a little more subtle. Look not for the body, but somebody's being. Watch, explore. Sooner or later you will find somebody who fits with you.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Trying, Watches

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• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Desire, Want, Tests

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

  Samuel Beckett

  Names, Language, Knows

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• El acto de Macbeth se lleva a cabo con horror y sin el menor deseo o sentido de gloria; casi se podría decir que se lleva a cabo como si fuera un deber atroz; en el instante en que termina, su futilidad se revela a Macbeth tan claramente como su vileza se había revelado de antemano

  A. C. Bradley

  Desire, Done, Deeds

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• No hay irritante tan doloroso como un as en la manga que nunca podrás utilizar; es el tipo de cosa que hace que las ostras produzcan perlas.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Ostras, Uso, Perlas

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). "Crímenes imaginarios", Penguin Group USA

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• Hay una posibilidad en las mentes humanas de algo misterioso como el viento nocturno, profundo como el mar, tranquilo como las estrellas y fuerte como la Muerte, una contemplación mística, el "amor intelectual de Dios". Los que lo han conocido ya no pueden creer en guerras, ni en ningún tipo de lucha caliente. Si pudiera dar a los demás lo que a mí me ha llegado de este modo, podría hacerles sentir también a ellos la inutilidad de la lucha. Pero no sé cómo comunicarlo: cuando hablo, miran fijamente, aplauden o sonríen, pero no entienden.

  Bertrand Russell

  Strong, Stars, War

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.319, Routledge

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• My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

  Robert Fripp

  Exercise, Musician

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• The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Learning, People

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

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• The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Rocks, Risk

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• Vuelvo a estar vivo, ahora que ya no soporto vivir.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Despair, Alive

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• ... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Fall, Despair

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• The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Gobierno, Gente

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• Puedes seguir mascando chicle durante diez horas, pero al cabo de un minuto y medio le habrás sacado todo lo bueno.

  Twyla Tharp

  Goma, Media, Horas

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