143 Quotes About Futility

How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

How can one have been so blind to things as bright as the day? How can one have kept on waiting, for the dawn of a sun that won't ever rise?!

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

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

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

The world doesn’t need to know. The world is too busy with futilities. Some things are best left alone, trust me.

...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE