Futility Quotes

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the ...

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possibl...

I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not every...

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling...

Leon was weary of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression cause...

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now ...

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whos...

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

Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roof...

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, ...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot wo...

There is only one sure means in life," Deasey said, "of ensuring that you are not ground into paste ...

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth wit...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the presen...

There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if...

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

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

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave i...

Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that t...

But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a le...

All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immorta...

It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survi...

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love....

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits tha...

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've ...