Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: wisdom futility athrabeth
I resolved to break the barren soil of my fruitless brain.
Elizabeth GrymestonTags: futility
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom day poetry time stories literature futility quotes thoughts days telling futile poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by the-creator literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic fleetness
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry time literature futility quotes thoughts algebra vain poetry-quotes analyzing quotes-to-live-by the-creator literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.
Kelli Jae BaeliTags: humor planning futility foolish parachute
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
Kelli Jae BaeliTags: wisdom water futility awareness boat sinking
The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.
Joseph ConradTags: futility life-is-short
...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...
John GeddesTags: futility wise-words changing sorry
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)
Cornell WoolrichTags: life futility resignation numbness numb past-future
Patronage of Negation
I am constantly confronted by other people’s works
That I could have created myself.
And I am constantly disappointed by them.
Sadly, I have to recognize them
For what they are: inferior versions
Of what I could have done
If I’d been insecure enough in my abilities
To do anything.
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