Quotes about Futility

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To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; — John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination fo — Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years
They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. Wha — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter — François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux
A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, un — Peter Watts, Beyond the Rift
The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement w — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows