143 Quotes About Futility

We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and the strong. We are all here for a mere moment.

Don't look for gold where there is none.

That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.

We that have done and thought,That have thought and done,Must ramble, and thin outLike milk spilt on a stone.

It is never more necessary to act than when action seems futile.

To sit around and think about oneself is futile. Get up and do something.

Prayers without action is activity in futility.

Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the present is spread,Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Everything is so wonderful precisely because everything is so pointless.