Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
“While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Reader: Will you not admit that you are arguing against yourself? You know that what the English obtained in their own country… — Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas K Copy Share Image
“Time and task were both disorienting, for if you were to remove everything from our lives that depends on electricity to function,… — Jane Brox Copy Share Image
“Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“As for the danger of alienating people with good intentions — well, one of the things that I learned from RaceFail (and… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
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