143 Quotes About Futility

I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action.

In a labyrinth, every step is wasted which does not lead out of the labyrinth.

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that's important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.

What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way? A great idea can be undermined by another great idea and, in due course, be demolished by it. But futility is inaccessible, indestructible, immovable. It is a true foundation and that is why it has been chosen as such.

It’s no use trying to reasonably argue with unreasonable people. Better to spend your time in more productive pursuits.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !