Quotes about Futility
I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
— Jeremiah 48:30
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
— Jeremiah 51:58
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
— Amos 5:5
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
— Malachi 3:14
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
— Romans 8:20
And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
— 1 Corinthians 3:20
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
— Ephesians 4:17
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
— Revelation 9:6
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
— Paulo Coelho
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
— Vance Havner
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
— Samuel Johnson
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
— Jack Kerouac