“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not perfection, it is what makes us understand the uselessness of perfection.” — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are… — Plato Copy Share Image
“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us;… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The new, alien string of letters had no illustration. No etymology. No pronunciation guide, even. It was just a hard-hearted, ungenerous little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
“The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people’s souls, repeating over and over:… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to… — Lygia Fagundes Telles Copy Share Image
“Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wandering.” — Ginger and Rosa Copy Share Image
“It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?” “No—” “To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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