Quotes About Futile Love

#1. I'm telling you right now that I'm not going to give up on you. I want you to be mine, City, and before the summer is over, you will be. I've never wanted someone the way I want you.

K.A. Robinson

#2. A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

Natalie

#3. If living is to end in pain, incompleteness, and nothingness, it seems a cruel and futile experience for beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love.

Alan W. Watts

#4. Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

Morihei Ueshiba

#7. The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Criss Jami

#8. The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Eugene V. Debs

#9. Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

Amy Winehouse

#10. This wired generation is kind of cool.

LeVar Burton

#11. A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

Helen Steiner Rice

#12. I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Mark Twain

#13. What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Hermann Hesse

#14. Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul....

Virginia Alison

#15. Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

Dalai Lama

#16. You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did.
"Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela,
"and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.

Emma Forrest

#17. Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile.

Debasish Mridha

#18. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. O hope, most futile of futilities!
Thine iron summons comes again,
O inevadible Pain!

Francis Thompson

#20. It's futile to predict what love will make of you, but sometimes it brings you things you never knew you wanted.

Mohammed Hanif

#21. Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Laurence J. Peter

#22. We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I - it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#23. One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

Hutch Parker

#24. Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist.
It can't claim me.
In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

Darren Shan

#25. The world is hard because you may wake up today but not tomorrow. And yet no one will accept "fear of death and a futile existence" as a reasonable excuse to miss work.
The world is hard because you will have to fight for the things you love or worse, fight the things you love.

Iain Thomas

#26. The truth was, I loved a man who would never love me. I wasn't enough for him, or he would have stayed. Chasing him was futile. He didn't want to be found. He'd given me what I had come here for: closure. I had my closure, and he had his.

Abbi Glines

#27. Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

Fethullah Gulen

#28. I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ...

John Geddes

#29. What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.

Jack London

#30. Everything seems futile here except the sun, our kisses, and the wild scents of the earth. ... Here, I leave order and moderation to others. The great free love of nature and the sea absorbs me completely.

Albert Camus

#31. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#32. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

Roland Barthes

#33. Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart.

Sarah Kane

#34. That love seemed to increase their desire to undo the corporations that made them. It used to be you had to make munitions to piss people off. Now it was enough to be large, global and successful. That made it a more radical, systematic critique, Nash thought. And more futile, naturally.

Dana Spiotta