Girdhar Joshi Quotes

“Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.”

“So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work.”

“He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.''What's so negative about it?' I said.'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.'"Ignorance,"' I said.”

“Resistance is NOT futile.”

“The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile!" What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.”

“It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.”

“The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.”

“It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

“The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.”

“Prayers without action is activity in futility.”