Quotes About Futile

Remote and ineffectual don.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer. . . . Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

It strikes me as an interesting paradox that a Buddha-an enlightened one-would be unable to figure it out, even after four-and-a-half years, that he had become enlightened. Fat had become totally bogged down in his enormous exegesis, trying futilely to determine what had happened to him. He resembled more a hit-and-run accident victim than a Buddha.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks for the most part in vain.

The frustration is in how pointless the effort was

Even those on the executive supporting his right to take office thought his behaviour "senseless, futile and provocative.

This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

Arme, oude maan,' grinnikte Nathaniel, die helemaal in zijn sas was. 'Hij eigent zich eindeloos kleuren toe om er zijn bleke gezicht mee te beschilderen, en het blijft vergeefs!

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years – for a lifetime!

I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Well, this day was a total waste of make-up.

It's not pregame'n if you have absolutely nowhere to go & nothing to do afterwards. Thats just simply gettin drunk & being a loser

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Your best efforts will never be enough when your best efforts are being wasted on the wrong person.

Giving advice to the ignorant is like sowing the seeds in the desert.

There are people in the world who sometimes waste their time trying to fix the thing which is not broken.