Sentence examples for futile existence from inspiring English sources

The essay addresses the problem of suicide: Why not opt out of a futile existence?

A bottomless, futile, sucking morass of emptiness that serves as a metaphor for our ultimately futile existence.

Because they hold out hope for meaning and direction, they acquire a kind of nobility that enables them to rise above their futile existence.

Following the abandonment of their star sprinter, Nacer Bouhanni, on Wednesday, it was no surprise to see Cofidis revert to their old habit of justifying their otherwise futile existence by committing Kenneth van Bilsen to the escape party, where he was accompanied by Daniel Teklehaimanot and Perrig Quéméneur.

"This video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system," says El-P of Run the Jewels.

Periodically we encounter a point of view that renders life, even existence, futile and meaningless.

(Efforts to verify its existence proved futile).

What did the Nihilist Borg Say? "Existence is Futile".

None of the parties view their existence as futile — immersing themselves in everyday local battles, they believe, will spread their influence.

Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.

But a regulating body needs to have some teeth to keep in check deeply offensive views that border on inciting hatred, or else its existence is entirely futile.