Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

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.

Dealing with the death of loved one is always difficult. No matter how much we know of death, of the process of Life, no amount of preparation to accept death is sufficient. When death comes calling in our circle, we are always caught struggling to cope. Immersing yourself in celebrating the Life of the one you lose is one better way of coping. In celebration, there is an uplifting energy. It helps you to look back at each moment you can recall with the person you lost and relive them. Or support causes they supported. Through these acts you heal yourself, you train your mind to let go and move on. It is a slow process, but it works. Important, don't try to fight your sadness. It is futile. Sadness is a natural response. Feeling sad is integral to the process of dealing with a loss. Instead understand your sadness, go its root, understand its futility...and then pluck it and discard it...

You can't and should not suppress your emotions. Instead sit in silence and witness your emotions. Pick them up, hold them up, understand them, realize the futility of those that bring you pain and discard them. This is how you peel away wasteful emotions. It is a process.

The truth is what it is, and it demands good old-fashioned values from us. So, dressing up what we would love to be true as the truth is always an exercise in futility in the long run.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your God having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any longer thinks that ethical naturalism can be undermined in a single stroke by the open question argument, or that appeal to the descriptive semantics of moral discourse is sufficient to refute noncognitivism.

"He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.'

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness redemption or the futility of revenge.

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.