Futile Struggle Quotes

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.

I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill.

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

There's no war that will end all wars.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.