Quotes About Futility

Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel.

Catching it destroys it, and I felt like I was disappearing, too. Stuff like this can drive you crazy.

Rich kid, Shiva yelled, you don't know one damn thing! What purpose , man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason , yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind !

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

In what is described as depression and experienced as emptiness, futility, fear of impoverishment, and loneliness can usually be recognized as the tragic loss of the self in childhood, manifested as the total alienation from the self in the adult.

The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones,

No podemos corregir las necedades de cada idiota, igual que no podemos corregir la marea. —

You can be as great a man as you please while you're alive. Makes not a straw of difference once you go back to the mud. And

diddly-squat out of you tonight.

If you repeat a word again and again, it loses it's meaning. Apparently this also works with heartbreak.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.

Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

He says, "I saved her only to hear her die.