Quotes About Futility

Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote

Kad bi se sakupila i ujedno sabrala li?na ose?anja gneva, protesta, ga?enja i ogor?enja sa kojima su ljudi pojedinci umrli, uzalud dozivaju?i pravdu i zaštitu - kad bi tako nešto bilo mogu?no - bila bi to velika snaga, divan prizor, i uteha ljudskom duhu zauvek. Nažalost, to je nezamislivo i neizvodljivo. Svak umire u tami i teskobi svoga o?ajavanja, a ve?ina sa ose?anjem uzaludnosti svojih najboljih težnja i napora.

You're wasting your time on me. Might as well go find another girl to charm.

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

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

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.

Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss

And I saw how everybody dies and nobody's going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.  It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. 

I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, 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.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.

Life is meaningless. Everyone knows this. Look at Fernando Pessoa. He knew the most that life was meaningless. But he was always worrying about things. If life was really meaningless you wouldn't worry about things

When nature got angry, Paul said, there was nothing man could do about it. Nothing at all. In