Futile

Famous quotes containing the word futile:

“It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“After experience taught me that all the ordinary
Surroundings of social life are futile and vain;”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)