Futile Quotes

257 Futile quotes by 213 unique authors

People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching.… — Bret Easton Ellis
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an… — Christopher Hitchens
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts… — Edgar Allan Poe
God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who… — Markus Zusak
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to… — Virginia Woolf
...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous. — Rafael Sabatini
Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even… — Alyson Noel
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. — Charles M. Schulz
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.… — Christopher Hitchens
I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of… — John Calvin
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. — Ivan Illich
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain… — Rajneesh
I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs… — Kelley Armstrong
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to… — Norman Maclean
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride.… — Arundhati Roy
I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning… — Bill Bryson
Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run… — Suzanne Collins
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own… — Thomas Merton
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I… — Marge Piercy
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my… — Elisabeth Elliot
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov

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