Quotes About Futility

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

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

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Waarom zal ik mij moreel gedragen, als ik toch in ieder geval de doodstraf krijg? Iedereen krijgt nou eenmaal de doodstraf en iedereen weet het.

All dressed up, with nowhere to go.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.

HISTORY, IN CORK'S OPINION, was a useless discipline, an assemblage of accounts and memories, often flawed, that in the end did the world no service. Math and science could be applied in concrete ways. Literature, if it didn't enlighten, at least entertained. But history? History was simply a study in futility. Because people never learned.

I'll pray for you, Emil,' he said. / 'About as useful as throwing a penny down a wishing well, Nathan.

He shared Erica's contempt for all those who tried to fill their holes in such places, all those who felt the key to life was getting enough money to frequent better and more exclusive versions of the very same crapholes. They had sentenced themselves to the chain gang, toiling under the reflective glasses of banker guards as they worked the road in an endless bulimic slog of earning and spending, acquiring, devouring, vomiting up the excess just so they could devour more.

He saw clearly the futility of trying to leave a mark on the shifting planes of reality, like trying to write his name in the foam of an ocean wave.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.