Quotes About Futility

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.

The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Faydas?z bir hayat, erken bir ölümdür.

INQUIETUD: A aquel que está en mi poder, el mundo no le sirve de nada.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un necio y su necedad.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un idiota y su locura; mientras que dos o tres idiotas menos no se echarían de menos en el mundo.

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.

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.

But we find that war is followed by no general good whatever. The power, the glory, or the wealth of a very few may be enlarged. But the people in general, upon both sides, after all the sufferings are passed, pursue their ordinary occupations, with no difference from their former state. The evils therefore of war... are a mere loss without any advantage...

For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is.

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.