Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
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.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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.
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.
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.