Sinnlosigkeit / Futility Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Sinnlosigkeit / Futility:

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

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

John Piper

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

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

H. G. Wells

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

George Carlin

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Emil Cioran

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Errol Morris

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Cullen Hightower

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.

Elliot Richardson

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Gary Zukav

I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.

Andy Kindler

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Robert Crumb

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

Brendan I. Koerner