Quotes about Futility

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Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daug — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all o — Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an ami — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his — H. Rider Haggard, She
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat. — Kelli Jae Baeli, Crossing Paths
Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. — J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring
So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hand — Solomon, Ecclesiastes, a New Tr. with Notes by J.N. Coleman
For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of fa — W. Scott Lineberry, Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotte — H. Rider Haggard, She
How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time — Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood wets the ground and — Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars. — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all li — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge pla — Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
The dying tapers off now and then, but the War is still killing lots and lots of people. Only right now it is killing th — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow