Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
“It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. — Samuel Richardson 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
“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
“it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting… — Douglas Adams 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
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
“How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of… — Chetan Bhagat 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
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
“. . .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
“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
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
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
“To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself… — Henry de Montherlant 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
