32 Movie Quotes about Futility with Audio – Page 3Updated: Sep 16, 2026Browse clips, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips. 21 His rage is just, even though it is useless. Quote from Ulysses (1954) 22 You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon. Quote from 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 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) 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. Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 27 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) 28 You're to persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile! For it can end in only one way, extinction for your people! Quote from Ben-Hur (1959) 29 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 30 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) Page 3 of 4 << ◄ 2 3 4 ► >>