Top Futility Quotes
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells 
Cullen Hightower 
Elliot Richardson 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
George Carlin 
Errol Morris 
Martin Luther King, Jr. All Futility Quotes
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran 
56% of people like this quote
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris
53% of people like this quote
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman
53% of people like this quote
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
50% of people like this quote
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells
48% of people like this quote
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
47% of people like this quote
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
45% of people like this quote
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
43% of people like this quote
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower
41% of people like this quote