Quotes About Futility

knew what you meant." "Think about it, Will. That was the end. We've seen the whole span, beginning to end. Life to nothingness. We know every step of it. Every fading footfall." She paused. "And still don't really know anything, do we?

One wouldn't want to be responsible for the end, but one might like to be there and know it was all over, the whole bang stupid pointless unnecessarily painful experiment

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Me aferro al tiempo como si pudiera sujetarlo. Pero él transcurre, inexorable y sordo. Los sabios más estúpidos envían misiles y naves espaciales para formalizar su idilio extraterrestre, pero es inútil, nadie los espera.

I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action.

Closure' - reassurance for the weak-kneed that their futile anguish has been leavened by a minor illusion of being in control … most often derived from obtaining a nibble of revenge.

Everything you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste.

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

It is possible that our negotiators, who have earnestly tried to negotiate a realistic and effective test ban, have exhausted every avenue of agreement, but since I have neither taken part in the negotiations nor had personal reports from the negotiators, who are not representatives chosen by me, I lack personal assurance of the futility of further discussions which alone would persuade me to urge the abandonment of so high an objective.

Then who are we, the blind ones and the blind folded, that do not know if we are on the side of the edge or not, but yet we run full of hope believing that we can finally embrace the infinite that runs away from us just like the horizon line that we would like to embrace with our arms full of vain hopes?

Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

People try to save special things but they did not always succeed. Rare books from a library were moved to a Pavilion building. When the Pavilion building caught fire, all the books burned. The building that originally held them did not burn at all.

And suddenly he knew that this was not, as he had been saying to himself, simply an unlucky day. It was a day dedicated beforehand to a lost cause.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try