29 Movie Quotes about Futility (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 His rage is just, even though it is useless.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

22 You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

23 A man gave me water to drink. I went on living. I should have done better if I had poured it into the sand. -No. -I am thirsty still.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

24 Let's assume that we did beat them all. Then another group would come. And so on. And there would be no end. And I ask you, do we really want that?

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

25 Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. -What's that? -Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

John Wood in WarGames (1983)

26 It doesn't matter a pair of foetid dingo's kidneys what you do from now on. Burn down the forests, anything. It won't make a scrap of difference.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

27 My testimony could convict them, but what good would it do? They're just hired thugs. And whoever is boss of this show could easily hire someone else to operate the ray guns.

George Wallace as Commando Cody in Radar Men from the Moon (1952)

28 That's an impossibility. Trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in futility.

John Travolta as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction

29 I assume you realize the futility of direct action against me.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard (1988)