32 Movie Quotes about Futility with Audio

Updated: Sep 16, 2026

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1 I mean, you can yell and scream, and you're right, But it won't do no good...

Quote from The Muppet Christmas Carol

2 A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth, you know? He tries to work it out with some cellophane off a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

3 Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4 Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5 The pity is that all fires must one day burn out.

Leslie Bradley as Dr. Karl Weigand in Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

6 Your money can't save you any more than it could save me.

Quote from Titanic (1997)

7 Any attempt to prove otherwise is futile because it just ain't true.

Quote from A Few Good Men

8 Raise families, and strive for new and better societies, and fight terrible wars for what you know is right. It gives one real hope for the whole future of lifekind. Except, of course, we know it hasn't got one.

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

9 No, I shall never be better than I am. I'm like one who died young. All my life might have been.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

10 Wait a minute. All we're doing is going around in circles.

Oliver Hardy as Ollie in A Chump at Oxford