Quotes About Futile

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Without faith, life is futile.

Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

This is what I miss… not something that's gone, but something that will never happen.

I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...

Pieces for Peace, rescue the Korean poet, ban the bomb. It's just that he's never agreed to do anything before. He wonders why, this time, he has. Not that this enterprise is any more likely to succeed than her other enterprises. But collecting signatures against RCMP Wrongdoing does not at the moment seem any more futile than most other things in his life.

Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

They couldn't see how maddening death really was, how colossally pointless in every way.

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

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

A little bit she was aware of the beauty she walked by, the sunlight sparkling off the quiet lake, the bare trees - it was beautiful, she was not unaware of this, but it was futile, and far away. Mostly she looked down at the muddy roots in front of her; the path, uneven with its little use, required concentration to maneuver. Perhaps it was the concentration that allowed her into the day.

Thus life passes quickly, meaningless. True discernment—hard it is to have! How therefore shall we ever find the means To curb the futile wanderings of the mind?

they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Iubitorul de flori va primi de la mine doar zadarnice jerbe funerare.

Ik heb al het mogelijke gedaan om haar te vergeten, maar eerlijk gezegd is dat nutteloos.