Quotes About Futile

las palabras de mando eran inútiles, y los hombres, agarrados con todas sus fuerzas a las vergas mientras el barco danzaba

Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.

But it was a lost cause. Like trying to find yesterday. You get the picture?

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.

I waited for something, something died.So I waited for nothing, Nothing arrived.

I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing.

Îmi pare r?u c? nu suf?r de halucinaÅ£ii ca s? înjgheb o conversaÅ£ie cu vocile m?rii, spre a uita pe oameni ÅŸi femeile lor. Destinul meu de ex-amorezat într'o lume de p??iri zadarnice ÅŸi repetate m? apropie mai mult ca niciodat? de prostia elementelor, de clarele non-r?spunsuri ale naturii.

Toda participación en las agitaciones temporales es tiempo perdido y malgasto inútil. […]

I try to wrest myself from everything, to raise myself by uprooting myself; in order to become futile, we must sever our roots, must become metaphysically alien.

All you have to do is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

It's funny to consider how important things like that felt to me then. Proving people wrong. Fighting stupidity. Wanting formal recognition. It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from underestimating you—and thereby from ceding to you surprise and other tactical advantages.

It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from underestimating you—and thereby from ceding to you surprise and other tactical advantages.

Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

GerçeÄŸini arayan yaz? serüvenini sat?r aralar?nda belli eden ÅŸu nafile aray???n izidir kitap: kurallar? son derece basit ama oynan??? fena halde umutsuzca karma??k bir oyun.

God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? Your job is to... And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

It was a nice dream, and an impossible one.

But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.

You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her!

Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

I've no intention of trying to dissuade you. I'll only say one thing: in an inhuman situation you're trying to behave like a human being. That may be admirable, but it's also futile. Though in fact I'm not even sure it's admirable—I'm not sure something foolish can also be admired.

what is existence but an endless, ultimately futile delaying of the inevitable?

I SAW A MAN PURSUING THE HORIZON; ROUND AND ROUND THEY SPED. I WAS DISTURBED AT THIS; I ACCOSTED THE MAN. IT IS FUTILE, I SAID, YOU CAN NEVER— YOU LIE, HE CRIED, AND RAN ON.