Futility Quotes

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”

“The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, / But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.”

“Anxiety is a hamster wheel. You can run and run and run and you're still in the same place.”

“One ought not to be asking for a flower on a withered tree.”

“What can it avail to drive forth a snail, or to make a sail of a herring's tail?”

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

“Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.”

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason... is like administering medicine to the dead.”

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason... is like administering medicine to the dead.”

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“Piety is a vain thing in the midst of arms.”

“It is a war that nobody wants to fight and yet they are fighting it.”

“Worrying is the most futile thing in the world.”