Top Futility Quotes

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generati...

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Futility Definition

(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other pe...

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read and not everything thought torments me like the loss of ........

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile

Leon was weary of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when no interest inspires and no hope sustains it. He...

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

Prayers without action is activity in futility.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper par...

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.