Futility Of Futility
FUTILITY OF FUTILITY
Futility of futility
All is futility-
In my lifelong struggle
To try to be
What I am not-
And it seems,
Never will be.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer in The True Believer (1951)
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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For Whom The Toll Booth Tolls
The futility in going nowhere should lead
One to contrary conclusions of turning around
I have been going nowhere for some time
Chosen roads like interstates bloated with traffic
All empty crowed places of promise and pleasantry
With lying signs controlling every turn along the way
Truth purveyors and predators of justice hiding
Behind concealments of concrete and greenery
Fulfilling the many quotas of our short but fast life
Ticketing us with radar speed checks and leaving
The morality of conviction to the Department Of Human Resources
Going nowhere....once appealed to me in my youth
The slow side of forty..... and in the distance a speedy seventy
Years that lingered like retirement condos and golf carts
Along the way
I drove hot cars and fast women......
I took them as far as they would go....
The unfortunate truths of my youth
stare at me in my eye's rearview mirror
There is futility in going nowhere
because I never wanted to grow old.......
poem by Ted Sheridan
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
quote by H.G. Wells
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Word Choice
The hardest word to say is 'goodbye'
The best escape is - 'maybe'
But 'cannot' is
For futility.
poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
quote by Errol Morris
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Transience II
Breath tricks me, who fights futility?
Death s[t]icks me ~ to spite utility.
poem by Jonathan Robin (1 December 1976)
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Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
quote by Cullen Hightower
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Futility
Thought about
Writing to you
About myself
But then
Wondered
About
The Futility
Of it all
Some
People
Despite
Knowing you
Inside out
Treat you
Like
Strangers
They can
Do without
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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When the Bark is Torn she Suffers
When the bark is torn she suffers,
She’s breaking down to cry.
To watch her mourn is to question why,
Why it is you have no tear in your eyes.
To lament for her soul for it never will die
Would be an exercise in futility.
poem by David Lacey
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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.
quote by George Carlin
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Futility
The futility
Of life is such
That people
All around
The world
Are dying.
You are
Blessed
With a
Life, yet
You don’t
Feel like
Living…
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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Forget
You know why
I write?
I write to
Forget -
About you
But when I
Read my poems
They remind me
Of you.
Alas!
I can see
The futility
Of my writing
In forgetting
About you…
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
quote by Martin Luther King
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Trimming
Clipping, smoothing, pruning; silly
dilly-dallies that people do.
Gross lessons in futility
achieved. And Oh! , tis true, tis true!
poem by Albert Ahearn
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
quote by Elliot Richardson
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
quote by Danny Elfman
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Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.
quote by Robert Smith
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