Utility Quotes

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

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

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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.

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

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

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

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

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I gave up before birth.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)