Quote by Molly O'Keefe

“Futile. She was telling me it was useless. That I was useless.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness…

— Wallace Stegner

“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over…

— George Orwell

“He was surprised at how useless his mind was.”

— Dan Chaon

“In other words, there was no pain. There was no pain anymore.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day”

— Ayn Rand

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“It didn’t feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I’d grown strong enough to bear it.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.”

— Donna Tartt

“The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.”

— Gabriel Tarde