Quotes About Futile

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

Most of the obstacles we encounter in life are difficult to overcome because they are mentally conceived. Fighting them physically is futile.

And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Even if I give all my best for, you it will never be counted. Maybe I will just be a printer without an ink trying to write over for you but you cant even see.

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

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

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?

Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.

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

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile.

A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

Trying to purify something that is fundamentally bad would be as pointless as trying to bleach a lump of coal.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Like so much that is true, it was of no help at all.

Um amor precisa de um turbilhão de palavras, das frases aparentemente inúteis e sem sentido, de elogios, do ruído das banalidades. Não há felicidade que seja tantas vezes fútil, tantas vezes inútil.

All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it

to debate which came first, the chicken or the egg, is always futile.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

Suffering must be obviously futile if it is to be 'educational'. It is for this reason that our history is so unintelligible, and indeed, nothing that was true has ever made sense. 'Why was so much pain necessary ?' we foolishly ask. But it is precisely because history has made no sense that we have learnt from it, and the lesson remains a brutal one.