Quotes About Futility

Así que también las personas mayores sufrían por cosas fútiles y pasajeras?

Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.

I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.

Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Who?" "Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer. Let it go, Pete, and go your way. Maybe the world will last our time and, if not, there's nothing that can be done anyway. I'm sorry, Pete. You fought the good fight, but you lost, and I'm through.

Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Now I'm entirely without hope, and one dies of that more quickly than of cancer

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.

I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back.

why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it" AP

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost