143 Quotes About Futility

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

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

Knitting is the perfect metaphor for life. You might spend months knitting something, but you could probably unravel the whole thing in less than an hour.

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

    In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter, to never have mattered.    The same for my species, and the earth, the universe, and God. When the last star winks out, none of it will have mattered - and it ten billion years, I will still be nothing - and equal to God.     That was the first stage in my enlightenment: to understand that nothing matters. Hence, everything is equal.

...it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.