Quotes About Futility

Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

No matter how hard you try, You can't build a rainman.

Boy, you couldn't pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted,sure that you would not die with your work unended,as if the iron scythe in the grass stops for a flower?

Heat magazine - the tittering idiot's lunchbreak-pamphlet-of-choice - has caused a bad stink by printing a collection of comedy stickers in its latest issue. Said stickers are clearly designed to be stuck round the fringes of computer monitors by the magazine's bovine readership in a desperate bid to transform their veal-fattening workstation pen into a miniature Chuckle Kingdom and thereby momentarily distract them from the bleak futility of their wasted, Heat-reading lives

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.

there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

There are times in life you wish dinosaurs weren't extinct and could be whistled to come and gulp you down.

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.

I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

futilidad que las animaban.

100 invested at 7 percent interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the true world. beauty said there was something more than just one fucking thing after another. time could rest for a moment, stop and that senseless motion. people thot beauty was bullshit, just a bandaide slapped over the abyss, but they couldnt be more wrong. beauty mattered, it was the only thing that fed you when everything turned to shit.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.