Quotes About Futility

Sometimes I feel the same," said Dane gravely, "as if it were too much to bear … to go through it all again, only much worse, because now one understands more, and there's none of the glitter and excitement. Now one sees the futility of the sacrifice.

Matthew groaned inwardly. He hated games that served no purpose other than to make fools out of the participants.

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

Death comes, old man. Its hand is on your heart now. And your life has been spent in vain.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ some stories just don't have a happy ending.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

It couldn't last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Paint the mirrors black to forget you I still picture your face and the way you used to taste. Roses in a glass, dead and wilted to you this all was nothing. Everything to you is nothing.

Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

Giving advice to the fool is like sowing water in the ocean.

Loving someone that does not love you is like shaking the tree that bears no fruit.

the Bible teaches that all non-Christians are foolish and futile, stupid and sinful. At best, their ideas are wise only according to human standards; that is, they appear to be wise only when they approve themselves, and when they judge themselves by their own stupid and sinful standards.

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us