Quotes About Futility

To make a long story short, he went round and round—it helped like cupping helps a corpse.

If you had to remind someone you loved that it was your birthday, then it was futile.

Because no one is good without God. And we can do nothing good without Him. So it's futile to regret a good deed, Ulf, for the good you have done cannot be taken back; even if all the mountains should fall, it would still stand.

At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.

El hombre no es entonces sino un accidente indiferente en la superficie de la tierra; está sobre la tierra como el explorador perdido en el desierto; puede ir a izquierda, a derecha, puede ir donde quiera, pero no llegará jamás a ninguna parte, y la arena cubrirá sus huellas.

Karn?m?z doymad?kça ekmeÄŸe inan?yor olmam?z beyhude ve faydas?z.

It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children. What was it all about? What did he want?

There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

CREON: Can't you see? If a man could wail his own dirge before he dies, he'd never finish.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!

We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.

I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing.

All that exists deserves to perish.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful , it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

alguna vez te ha perturbado una mujer? No te diré que lo aprenderás cuando seas grande porque se aprende a cualquier edad e igual no sirve para nada.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.