Quotes About Futility

Todo mundo sabe disso, todo mundo que já olhou sem poder fazer nada para uma pessoa doente ou moribunda, ou um animal doente ou moribundo, sentiu uma pena terrível, uma pena avassaladora, e percebeu que essa pena, por maior que pudesse ser, é totalmente inútil.

What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.

Fred, Robert Arctor, ne aveva già fatte sei di riunioni come quella, così da sapere bene che cosa dire e anche che cosa ci fosse in serbo per lui: tipi assortiti e varie gradazioni di domande da stronzi e un'ottusa stupidità collettiva. In aggiunta, un inutile spreco del suo tempo, più una bella dose di rabbia e un senso ogni volta più grande di futilità.

McFeyffe, Hamilton said, you're going to have to forgive me. Why? Because I'm going to do something fruitless and futile. Because, even though I realize it's useless, I'm going to kick the living Jesus out of you.

Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer—life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense.

The messiness of marriage and children and career and all that—I've already realized the futility of it all without having had to go through it all.

Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero.

All wars are started by angry old men, but they are fought by young men who die for reasons that are beyond them. In the end, the same old men sit around tables and the war ends. Nothing is achieved. Nothing is gained. New faces move into old castles, and the sons of the dead build families ready to feed new battleground graveyards.

The frustration is in how pointless the effort was

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

If it were a peg, you couldn't hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Técnicas bienintencionadas como la auto-mortificación arbitraria, son inútiles.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Several aeroplanes are now seen which inspires Bryan to announce that he is going to be an ace in the next war. Reflect on the futility of all this talk anent disarmament in the face of the warlike spirit of the rising generation.