“Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.”

“They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.”

“If you’re waiting for my good looks to fade... it’s a futile waste of time. Give up at once. - (Christian Wright)”

“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not be undertaken in opposition to the Asuras, but only with their help. The pronouncement ran contrary to everything the Devas had previously thought. But in the end, what did they have to lose, given that their lives were so futile? Now they thought: Anything, so long as there be a trial, a risk, a task.”

“To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.”

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”