There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“Beauty is not perfection, it is what makes us understand the uselessness of perfection.” — Luigina Sgarro 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
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
“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
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.… — Carl Rogers 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
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
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith 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
... 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
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
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“My own uselessness is devouring me. Soon there will be only bones left. A familiar feeling, one I’ve had too often ever… — Mariam Petrosyan 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
“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
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“startling! such determination in the dull and uninspired and the copyists. they never lose the fierce gratitude for their uneventfulness, nor do… — Charles Bukowski 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
“Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own… — Orson Scott Card 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
“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
“It is rather odd to find Dunbar referring to dance as useless: ‘dancing, a phenomenon that probably ranks, along with smiling and… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
