32 Movie Quotes about Futility with Audio – Page 2

Updated: Sep 16, 2026

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11 It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

Quote from Blade Runner (1982)

12 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)

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

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

14 They hand him a shovel, tell him where to dig. When he's dug deep enough, they tell him to put the shovel down, smoke a cigarette, and say his prayers. In another 5 minutes, he's being covered over with the earth he dug out.

Bruce Bennett as James Cody in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

15 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

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

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

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

Quote from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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

Quote from WarGames (1983)

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)