Quotes About Futility

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Sí, es necesario padecer, aun en vano, para no vivir en vano.

Upon seeing more the people , it feels strongly that nothing can be done against their foolishness.

El que deba vivir que viva; el que deba caer que caiga. De aquí su remordimiento y tristeza.

There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.

The moment you're born you're done for.

But love is reserved for people, not things; to misplace your love is to invite frustration and futility—to get on the hedonic treadmill and set it to ultra-fast.

I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.

They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness—as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne—and often the throne also sits on mud.

But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere—until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.

It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

ils vont à dépenser je sais pas combien de millions pour des bateaux qui se font couler, pour des avions qui prennent en feu, pour des tanks qui durent pas trois jours. L'argent s'en va pour la destruction pis se détruit lui-même.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.

It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.

I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.

Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.