“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
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?" "No..." "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“As I finally give in to my startling beauty, I attempt to fully grasp the meaning of God, His creation, and vision.… — Penelope Przekop Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were,… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned,… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Huh.” “Huh what?” “Would you look at this?” he asked, examining a small box. “It says it glows in the dark.” “So?”… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
