Futility quotes

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Public Speaking #Futility
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Doe #Action #Futility
How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Dark #Hated #Futility
The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.
-- Monty Oum

#Effort #Futility
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
-- Robert Fripp

#Exercise #Musician #Futility
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 #Futility
I gave up before birth.
-- Samuel Beckett

#Birth #Futility #Gave Up
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson

#Defining #Characteristics #Futility
I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.
-- Vanessa Veselka

#Futility #Powerlessness

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.
You never get tired of the buzz of touring.
You are worth more than harming yourself
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
I love. The most reckless thing of all.
For me, comfort is paramount.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.