Quotes About Futility

When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The

It's good to know what's wrong with the world,' Karla said, after a while. 'But it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.

All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing

They treasure names and empty appearances above nearly all else, harming themselves and others just to protect them. They want to get money, or a good reputation, or a good relationship. They struggle desperately to get high positions. People always subject their minds to the worst kind of abuse and suffering just to try to get and then keep these empty, impermanent things.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.

...and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

Don't spend your time fetching water with a basket for it will never get filled up

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

What was the point of waiting for a more pleasant post? There was no such thing as pleasure in life for her anymore.

Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. -Madara Uchiha

I want you to observe...that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logic—are those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it.

No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.

para qué trabajar? Sabías que tu mísera manutención básica te la darían en cualquier caso, trabajases o no..., tu "asignación para casa y comida", la llamaban..., y por encima de esa miseria podías olvidarte de conseguir algo, no importa cuánto lo intentases.

If you write a whole line of zeros,it's still nothing, (Kira Alexandrovna)