Quotes About Futility

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided.

Più in generale, l'esperienza ci aveva già dimostrato infinite volte la vanità di ogni previsione: a che scopo travagliarsi per prevedere l'avvenire, quando nessun nostro sforzo, nessuna nostra parola lo avrebbe potuto minimamente influenzare?

Es necesario estar desilusionado y, sin embargo, apasionadamente enamorado de la vida, aun cuando se haya descubierto su gran futilidad.

the dead moon sheds cold light on the dark buildings that stand testament to the folly of the human race.

walking nowhere on a treadmill seemed rather pointless

Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling.

It was a blur," people say. What they really mean is the impossibility of anyone truly entering such an experience from outside, the futility of explanation.

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.

hakol havel (Hebrew: "Vanity of vanities… All is vanity"): Ecclesiastes 12:8.

and a person who worries over something he can do nothing about is an extraordinary fool.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

You're dead mister and you died for nothing. You're dead mister. Dead.

That was the trouble with numbers. They got so big you couldn't handle them and even if you could they got you nowhere.

I am the Angel with the Broken Wing, The one large statue in this quiet room. …Perhaps I am a masterpiece of sorts— The perfect emblem of futility.

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 the 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... some stories just don't have a happy ending

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... some stories just don't have a happy ending

Los juegos de azar hay que considerarlos como estériles para la cultura. Ninguna riqueza aportan ni al espíritu ni a la vida. Pero otra cosa ocurre cuando la porfía exige destreza, habilidad, conocimientos, valor y fuerza.

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

That feeling you get when you suddenly realize that you were fighting for nothing all along.

Worrying is stupid, it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death