Quotes About Futility

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

Can a man escape what Fate has doomed? It is useless for a man to be anxious the last days of his life.

Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past. What a relief.

How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.

In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation.

Every medicine is vain.

Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.

As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there's nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality.

They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.

There's sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime, and at least all the trains run on time but they don't go anywhere.

Sofìa non era sparita, non era morta, era con lui, e lo amava ancora. Cos'era il resto, tutto il resto, se non pura futilità?

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

Demek ki yaÅŸam bir tür ÅŸakayd?: kibrinden, girdiÄŸi bir iddia yüzünden her ÅŸeyi yitirmiÅŸti.

Boriti se može protiv careva, tirana, papa, lopova i medveda, pitona i krokodila. Si?ušnu vašku zaludno je ubijati. I smešno je i bezumno ubijati vaši.

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

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

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

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.

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.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND IT DOES ME NO GOOD AT ALL