Quotes About Futility

His uselessness ached. The

Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con piedras tan pesadas que costaba levantarlas. Un día nos obligaban a construirlo y al día siguiente nos ordenaban que destruyéramos lo erigido; y así una y otra vez. La mayor tortura de todas las que he vivido consistía en la inutilidad de un trabajo sobrehumano.

Sisyphus. Have you people nothing better

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.

I knew that before I asked . . . but part of me can't help hoping that maybe this time, he'll love me." "As I can't help hoping that my mother will rise, and will once again be the woman who sang me such lullabies that the world stood still." Pulling her into a crushing embrace, he pressed his lips to her temple. "We are both fools.

But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

Yes. That's the way it is. No one's amazed by what you've been up to. For all these years, you've been performing those exhausting acrobatics not to a distant gallery, but to an empty house.

The message was: disorder always won in the end. The idea that man could order the world to his own design was the most pitiful fairy tale ever told.

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.

Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Useless, like a revolution.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

Don't try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.

Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a bit of fungus on the surface of a splinter of a dying star.

My mathematics is helpless against the sea.

Si el biofísico y filósofo Pierre Lecomte du Noüy nos ha invitado a reflexionar sobre el hecho de que «en la escala de los seres, sólo el hombre realiza actos inútiles»,

Ölüm de?ilse bizi ay?ran, yaz?k olmu?.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.

Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.