Quotes About Futility

It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?

It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions humans have!

Ca inchipuiti mai sunt oamenii! De ce sa te obosesti sa compui muzica daca tacerea si vantul sunt mai cuprinzatoare? De ce sa aprinzi lampi daca intunericul, inevitabil, le va stinge?

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn't it occur to you that the sort of life people like us lead is remarkably like death?

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

And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this. He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he already had become.

Hrvaš li se sa snovima? Boriš li se sa sjenama? Osje?aš li se kao da spavaš? Vrijeme je isteklo. Život ti je ukraden. Potrošio si ga na sitnice, ti žrtvo vlastitih ludosti.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers," Paul said. "Nothing. Nothing can be done.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--but not for us.

Es gibt unendlich viel Hoffnung, nur nicht für uns.

Without any way out, not even toward the depth.

There is infinite hope, but not for man.

Pregunto acaso [...] con la pretensión de que se me conteste? ¿Tengo unas esperanzas tan estúpidas?

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.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting was over, and now he would have been happy to return to it.