Quotes about Futility

You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts. Ephesians 4:17

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom.

But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.