Human Futility Quotes

#1. That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God and find him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Katie Featherston

#3. To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

John Howard Griffin

#4. If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Love can make you either "Live your life!" or "Leave your life!".

Vj Nadar

#6. Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among the news services to rewrite them for their subscribers during their window of exclusivity.

Alex Berenson

#7. I feel like you woke me up and now I can't live without you.

Christine Feehan

#8. 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

#9. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#10. Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.

Tom Rachman

#11. Now no sign, no scorch or char, marks the place where George built the fire. Remarkable, earth's strength to restore itself and erase human effort. But memory, stronger still, can send flames as high as the roof, and shift the wind and choke George and sting his eyes with smoke ...

Larry Watson

#12. It is perhaps one's own fault, to see oneself drifting, rotting, in dishonour and horrible futility, and all the while knowing that somewhere within one there is the possibility of a decent human being.

George Orwell

#13. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

Derek Landy

#15. God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

John Piper

#16. Jesus is what the Bible is all about, and you are what Jesus is all about. (John 5:39)

Francois Du Toit

#17. Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Abba Eban

#18. Gravity is matter's sugar daddy.

Brian Greene

#19. For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.

James Carroll

#20. Tacos will grow on Christmas trees before I learn to carry a tune. Fortunately, it doesn't matter. In karaoke, talent means nada; enthusiasm is everything. What I lack in talent, I make up for in passion. Hence my karaoke problem.

Rob Sheffield

#21. Save me, O you who love me; love me bravely.

Miklos Radnoti

#22. Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.

Dallas Willard

#23. A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant
these three have a hard life.

Franz Grillparzer

#24. At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

IO Tillett Wright

#25. I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Ashley Tisdale

#26. 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.

Marquis De Sade

#27. Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

Auliq Ice