29 Movie Quotes about Futility (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 4, 2025

Memorable quotes about futility, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 All right, if you want to know the truth, I don't much care for the time I was born into. It seems people aren't dying fast enough these days. They call upon science to invent new, more efficient weapons to depopulate the earth.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

12 Fix it? Look, it has been disintegrated. By definition, it cannot be fixed.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

13 Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

14 What a pity. I don't think we will ever be able to fix it.

Sterling Holloway as Winnie The Pooh in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

15 Hey, look, you and us, we're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die. And for what? We don't get anything out of it.

Telly Savalas as Sergeant Big Joe in Kelly's Heroes

16 Well, I don't know. Maybe the war's catching up with me... Its ugliness, stupidity, futility...

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

17 So let's just stop gabbin' on about it. It's completely pointless. And it's gettin' us nowhere. -Right! -I agree. This is a complete waste of time.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian

18 If it's fighting you still long for, there will always be another war, that I promise you.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

19 Ah, this is futile! 573 committee meetings, you haven't even discovered fire yet!

David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20 You'll be nothing! -Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt; Stephen Shea as Linus Van Pelt in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)