Quotes About Futility

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Just then someone called his name and he turned and saw the torn and colorless polo shirt, the slacks that couldn't be patched any more. He saw the sunken-cheeked cadaver, the living waste of time and effort that added up to the face and body of his younger brother.

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

I don't think I could stab somebody, cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun.

I tried to throw a yo-yo away. It was impossible.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.